Discourse Analysis

by Barbara Johnstone, Jennifer Andrus

A new edition of the bestselling textbook on discourse analysis, ideal for undergraduate and graduate courses in linguistics and the broader humanities and social sciences

Discourse Analysis explains how to collect and analyze spoken, written, and multimodal language. Now in its fourth edition, this popular textbook encourages students to think systematically and critically about different sources of discourse to better understand why spoken utterances and written texts have the meanings and uses they do. Throughout the book, the authors offer real-life examples of what discourse analysis can reveal about language, individuals, groups, and society.

Student-friendly chapters describe discourse analysis with a goal of helping students master the fundamental concepts of this important area of linguistic research. Each chapter contains discussion questions that encourage students to relate the material to their own experiences, perform their own analyses, and consider important issues in research design and research ethics. The new edition of Discourse Analysis includes new discussion questions and ideas for research projects, up-to-date supplementary readings, and expanded discussions of corpus analysis methods, rhetorical legitimation, and social identities. This

Teaches students to apply discourse analysis to answer research questions in disciplines across the humanities and social sciences Explains the complex relationships between discourse and various aspects of context, such as linguistic structure, participants, and prior discourse Provides instructors with the flexibility to re-order chapters to meet the needs of their students Features exercises that incorporate extensive data from a variety of languages and situations, including discourse in electronic media Contains discussion questions, activities, research projects suggestions, further readings, chapter summaries, and other pedagogical featuresDiscourse Analysis, Fourth Edition, remains the ideal primary text for undergraduate and graduate courses in language and linguistics, language pedagogy, rhetoric and composition, and linguistic ethnography.

Genres: Linguistics, Nonfiction, Academic, Language, Research, Teaching, Textbooks

320 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 31, 2001

Reviews

[Erin · Rating 4 out of 5]

A really really really in-depth look at discourse analysis. The book includes numerous examples of discourse analysis. I read this book for a discourse analysis class where the professor would actually read entire pages out of the text. The professor thought this was the best book ever on the subject.

I would say that it is a bit too detailed and in-depth. The vast amount of information that was covered was a bit overwhelming.

[Kim · Rating 1 out of 5]

Gag me with a flippin spoon. This book is wordy and difficult to follow without making any salient points. Far overpriced. It really wasn't worth a cent that I (begrudgingly) paid for it.

[KD · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a great introduction to discourse analysis designed for upper level undergraduates but also useful for graduate students in other disciplines who just want to get the lay of the land. It has good discussion questions sprinkled throughout each chapter, making it a useful textbook, lots of suggestions for further reading, and a useful glossary.

[Rima Muryantina · Rating 4 out of 5]

How can I not love this book? This book is the first step for me to understand that linguistics could be applied in daily life. Each of single small activities/conversation/text in daily life. Mark that.
The examples written in this book are confusing and complex, but impressive.

[Erin · Rating 4 out of 5]

So much good info! A thorough introduction to the foundations of discourse analysis.

[Suzie Albuflasa · Rating 1 out of 5]

I personally believe that this book doesn’t work quite well for beginners. This is the book that was used in my first discourse analysis course and it was extremely confusing. It seemed almost as if it was meant to target people who probably had prior background and some information about DA. I did not like it one bit, the glossary was quite poor too i really really appreciate glossaries and this book was disappointing.

[Hatoon · Rating 1 out of 5]

Wordy, scattered, and an absolute headache. There are millions of ways in which this book could have been written without being such a collection of perplexing, long-winded chunks of text.

[Wood Rodgers · Rating 4 out of 5]

Reinvigorating it all

[Mahmoud · Rating 3 out of 5]

Mainly on speech and conversation. I'm not satisfied.

[Matthew · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great simple introduction to the subject that is up to date.

[Brhiana · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is so dry

[Tory S. Anderson · Rating 4 out of 5]

An excellent overview of discourse analysis and the ways in which Discourse Analysis surveys all the most interesting components of language, including rhetoric, power, style, purpose, and world-influence. It left me hungry for more.

[Selena Monticelli · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you have ever had a rough time writing a paper, just read this book and you will be golden.

[Abdelmallek Alouane · Rating 5 out of 5]

is an important book, it will help me in my researches university's researches

[Marasi]

discourse grammar