Discourse Analysis, 2nd Edition provides a comprehensive overview of the major approaches to and methodological tools used in discourse analysis.

Rodney H. Jones is Head of the Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics at the University of Reading, UK.

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Acknowledgements

A Introduction: Key topics in the study of discourse analysis

1 What is discourse analysis?

2 Texts and texture

3 Texts and their social functions

4 Discourse and ideology

5 Spoken discourse

6 Strategic interaction

7 Context, culture and communication

8 Mediated discourse analysis

9 Multimodal discourse analysis

10 Corpus-assisted discourse analysis

B Development: Approaches to discourse analysis

1 Three ways of looking at discourse

2 Cohesion and coherence

3 All the right moves

4 Constructing reality

5 The texture of talk

6 Negotiating relationships and activities

7 The SPEAKING model

8 Mediation

9 Modes, meaning and action

10 Procedures for corpus-assisted discourse analysis

C Exploration: Analysing discourse

1 Doing discourse analysis: first steps

2 Analysing texture

3 Analysing genres

4 Other people's voices

5 Analysing speech acts

6 Analysing conversational strategies

7 Analysing contexts

8 Doing mediated discourse analysis

9 Analysing multimodality

10 Analysing corpora

D Extension: Readings in discourse analysis

1 The three perspectives revisited (Zellig Harris; Henry G. Widdowson; James Paul Gee)

2 Two perspectives on texture (Michael A.K. Halliday and Ruqaiya Hasan; David Rumelhart)

3 Genres, discourse communities and power (John Swales; Vijay K. Bhatia)

4 Ideologies in discourse (Norman Fairclough; James Paul Gee)

5 Two perspectives on conversation (John L. Austin; Emanuel A. Schegloff and Harvey Sacks)

6 Frames in interaction (Deborah Tannen and Cynthia Wallat)

7 The ethnography of communication (Dell Hymes; Muriel Saville-Troike)

8 Discourse and action (Ron Scollon)

9 Two perspectives on multimodality (Gunther Kress and Theo van Leeuwen; Sigrid Norris)

10 Finding 'Discourses' with corpus-assisted analysis (Paul Baker and Tony McEnery)

Further reading

References

Author index

Glossarial index