Discourse Studies Reader: Essential Excerpts

by Ken Hyland (Series Editor)

Since 2005, the Continuum Discourse series, under the
editorship of Professor Ken Hyland, has published some of the most cutting-edge
work in the field of discourse analysis.This edited collection offers a showcase of
the work produced by its authors and reads as fully-functional book in its own right.
The work of Paul Baker, Frances Christie and Greg Myers features, amongst others.

With an introduction by Professor Hyland, the chapters are
organized thematically to provide a look a research methods, examine at the
various types of institutional discourses covered by the series, and finally, a
look to arguably the future of the field - electronic discourses in an
electronic medium, for example Twitter, SMS and Blogs.

This is an essential purchase for those involved in
discourse analysis in any capacity.

360 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2013

About the author

Ken Hyland is Professor of Applied Linguistics in Education at the University of East Anglia. He is a Foundation Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities and an Honorary Professor at Warwick University, Jilin University and Hong Kong University.