"This revised edition of Deborah Tannen's first discourse analysis book, Conversational Style - first published in 1984 - presents an approach to analyzing conversation that later became the hallmark and foundation of her extensive body of work in discourse analysis, including t…
This book offers a practical introduction to discourse analysis and its relevance for language teaching. It begins with explaining what discourse analysis is, then outlines different models of analysis and evaluates them in terms of their usefulness to language teachers. This is…
Methods of critical discourse analysis
by Wodak, Ruth, Meyer, Michael
fromIntroducing qualitative methods
"An up-to-date introduction to critical discourse analysis (CDA), appropriate for both novice and experienced researchers"--Publisher description.
"This practical textbook introduces students to a range of tools and techniques used in discourse analysis. The perfect starting point for those new to the field, it explores a wide range of fundamental concepts in discourse analysis, including sociolinguistic variables that aff…
"Is culture simply a set text we can learn to read? Since the early 1970s, the notion of culture-as-text has animated anthropologists and other analysts of culture. Michael Silverstein and Greg Urban present this stunning collection of cutting-edge ethnographies arguing that the…
This contribution to Palgrave's 'Advances' series addresses a wide range of issues that have arisen in post-Gricean pragmatic theory, in chapters by distinguished authors. Among the specific topics covered are scalar implicatures, lexical semantics and pragmatics, indexicality, …
Metaphor is recognized as widespread and intrinsic to language use. This work examines the use and understanding of metaphor in everyday classroom discourse and in informational texts. The use and interpretation of metaphor is discussed in terms of humaninteraction, understandin…
