Discourse Analysis, 2nd Edition

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Discourse Analysis, 2nd Edition

Barbara Johnstone

Description

Fully revised and updated throughout, the new edition of Discourse Analysis is a user-friendly textbook for students taking their first course in linguistic approaches to discourse.

Second edition of a popular introductory textbook, combining breadth of coverage, practical examples, and student-friendly features
Includes new sections on metaphor, framing, stance and style, multimodal discourse, and Gricean pragmatics
Considers a variety of approaches to the subject, including critical discourse analysis, conversation analysis, interactional and variationist sociolinguistics, ethnography, corpus linguistics, and other qualitative and quantitative methods
Features detailed descriptions of the results of discourse analysts’ work
Retains and expands the useful student features, including discussion questions, exercises, and ideas for small research projects.

About the Author

Barbara Johnstone is Professor of Rhetoric and Linguistics at Carnegie Mellon University and editor of the journal Language in Society. She is the author of Repetition in Arabic Discourse (1990), Stories, Community, and Place: Narratives from Middle America (1990), The Linguistic Individual (1996), and Qualitative Methods in Sociolinguistics (2001), in addition to many articles and book chapters.

Features

Second edition of a popular introductory textbook, combining breadth of coverage, practical examples, and student-friendly features
Revised and updated throughout, with new examples and discussions, as well as an improved visual design
Includes new sections on metaphor, framing, stance and style, multimodal discourse, and Gricean pragmatics
Considers a variety of approaches to the subject, including critical discourse analysis, conversation analysis, interactional and variationist sociolinguistics, ethnography, corpus linguistics, and other qualitative and quantitative methods
Features detailed descriptions of the results of discourse analysts’ work
Retains and expands the useful student features, including discussion questions, exercises, and ideas for small research projects.

To Purchase this product, please visit

https://dev.store.wiley.com/en-ca/Discourse+Analysis%2C+2nd+Edition-p-9781119100119