Working with Discourse: Meaning Beyond the Clause

by J. R. Martin, David Rose

This second edition of the best-selling textbook Working with Discourse has been revised and updated throughout. The book builds an accessible set of analytic tools that can be used to explore how speakers and writers construe meaning through discourse. These techniques are introduced in clear steps, through analyses of spoken, written and visual texts that focus on truth and reconciliation in post-apartheid South Africa. The new edition includes a chapter on Negotiation, clear definitions of key terms, chapter summaries and revised suggestions for further reading. 

Accessibly written and presupposing no prior knowledge of discourse or functional linguistics, this is the ideal textbook for students encountering discourse analysis for the first time at advanced undergraduate or postgraduate level.

Genres: Linguistics

375 pages, Paperback

First published April 3, 2003

Reviews

[Nick]

This is a simplified and more appliable version of Martin's much overlooked English Text (see my review). It takes the same discourse semantics approach to discourse analysis and illustrates how it can be applied to various real-life texts. Using systemic functional networks it reveals how analysis of text relates to context and genre - a claim that few close grammatical analyses of text can make.

[Nurunnazipah]

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[Iis]

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