Understanding Discourse Analysis (Understanding Language) - Softcover

Vine, Bernadette

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1032025883 ISBN 13: 9781032025889

Publisher: Routledge, 2023

Synopsis

Understanding Discourse Analysis provides students with an accessible and well-illustrated introduction to discourse analysis. Explaining the main terminology and frameworks and presenting key findings of discourse studies, this book:

• Explores the development of discourse analysis
• Covers four key approaches to analysing discourse
• Uses authentic spoken or written texts in all examples
• Features data from the Wellington Language in the Workplace Project database
• Includes examples from a wide range of languages from around the world, such as Chilean Spanish, Korean and Serbo-Croatian

Written by an active researcher, this textbook is a fascinating and engaging introduction to discourse analysis and is ideal for students studying this topic for the first time.

About this title

About the Author

Bernadette Vine is Senior Researcher and Corpus Manager for the Language in the Workplace Project, based at the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (www.wgtn.ac.nz/lwp). Bernadette’s research interests include workplace communication, leadership and New Zealand English.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032025883
• ISBN 13: 9781032025889
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 194