(Discourse and Genre: Using Language in Context (Perspectives on the English Language)) [By: Bax, Stephen] [Dec, 2010]

by Stephen Bax

This book is a guide to discourse, discourse analysis and genre, aimed at upper level undergraduates as well as graduate students. It has a student-friendly, inductive approach, leading readers from examples to principles. Using a clear and progressive framework together with genuine discourse examples, students are given a clearly structured understanding of how each dimension of discourse is linked together.
Offers a clear, authoritative and systematic approach to analyzing real-world texts
Includes analysis of a wide range of authentic texts
Provides practical guidance on how to carry out a discourse analysis project
With an explicit focus on genre and genres, it draws on contexts which are highly appealing to students such as forensic and linguistic discourse, and the discourse of texting, internet chat and television. It also offers clear guidance as to how to carry out a discourse analysis project.

Paperback

First published January 15, 2011

Reviews

[Jacquelyn · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very repetitive

[Nathan Nicolau · Rating 4 out of 5]

Opinionated and a bit repetitive, but an easy-to-read textbook on genres and how we can analyze them. It was useful for doing my genre analysis.