Discourse Analysis

How to Analyse Texts is the essential introductory textbook and toolkit for language analysis. This book shows the reader how to undertake detailed, language-focussed, contextually sensitive analyses of a wide range of texts – spoken, written and multimodal. The book constitutes a flexible resource ..

How to Analyse Texts is the essential introductory textbook and toolkit for language analysis. This book shows the reader how to undertake detailed, language-focussed, contextually sensitive analyses of a wide range of texts – spoken, written and multimodal. The book constitutes a flexible resource ..

This book provides a case study of discourse to challenge assumptions in much Critical Discourse Analysis regarding the top-down nature of power in language. Calling for greater contextualization in critical work, the book frames an in-depth analysis of institutional discourse between indigenous com..

Introducing Discourse Analysis is a concise and accessible introduction by James Paul Gee to the fundamental ideas behind specific approaches to discourse analysis, or the analysis of language in use. Gee stresses how grammar sets up choices for speakers and writers to make, choices which express, n..

Intimate discourse – that between couples, family and close friends in private, non-professional settings – lies at the heart of our everyday linguistic experience. It creates and sustains our closest relationships. _x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ Using an innovative blend of the community of practice m..

Intimate discourse – that between couples, family and close friends in private, non-professional settings – lies at the heart of our everyday linguistic experience. It creates and sustains our closest relationships. _x000D_ _x000D_ Using an innovative blend of the community of practice model with a ..

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of contemporary Israeli political discourse dealing with the West Bank during the election campaign of 2015. It will lay theoretical and methodological foundations for a cross-cultural study of occupation and other forms of repressive discourses as an initia..

Explores how social contexts affect language use, based around the skills specified in the assessment objectives for AS and A2 Level English...

Explores how social contexts affect language use, based around the skills specified in the assessment objectives for AS and A2 Level English...

Language plays a central role in creating and sustaining the market society—a society, that is, in which market exchange is no longer simply a process, but an all-encompassing social principle. The social domains affected include education, politics and religion. Around the world, government departm..

Language plays a central role in creating and sustaining the market society—a society, that is, in which market exchange is no longer simply a process, but an all-encompassing social principle. The social domains affected include education, politics and religion. Around the world, government departm..

First published in 1992, this wide-ranging collection of essays focuses on the principle of contextualisation as it applies to the interpretation, description, theorising and reading of literary and non-literary texts. The collection aims to reveal the interdependencies between theory, analysis, tex..