Discourse Analysis (Introducing Linguistics) - Softcover

Johnstone, Barbara; Andrus, Jennifer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1394185162 ISBN 13: 9781394185160

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2024

Synopsis

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 textbook:

• 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 features

Discourse 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.

About this title

About the Author

BARBARA JOHNSTONE is Professor Emeritus of Rhetoric and Linguistics at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research is at the intersection of rhetoric, linguistics, and critical theory. She is interested in how the relationships between individuals and communities are created and maintained through discourse.

JENNIFER ANDRUS is Professor of Writing and Rhetoric Studies at the University of Utah, where she teaches courses on discourse analysis, legal rhetoric, and rhetorical theory. She is a founding board member of Fight Against Domestic Violence and the author of numerous articles and two books.

From the Back Cover

Discourse Analysis presents a comprehensive and accessible introduction to linguistic approaches to discourse. Ideal for students new to the subject, this student-friendly textbook clearly explains a wide range of methods and techniques used to collect and analyze spoken, written, and multimodal language. Easy-to-digest chapters describe critical discourse analysis, conversation analysis, interactional and variationist sociolinguistics, ethnography, corpus linguistics, social semiotics, and other qualitative and quantitative methods.

Throughout the text, students explore the factors underlying the meanings and uses of spoken utterances and written texts, supported by a wealth of real-world examples and numerous exercises that incorporate extensive data from a variety of languages and situations. Using an engaging narrative style, the authors explain the complex relationships between discourse and various aspects of context while illustrating what discourse analysis can reveal about language, individuals, groups, and?society.

Now in its fourth edition, Discourse Analysis features new discussion questions and ideas for research projects, up-to-date supplementary readings, expanded discussions of corpus analysis methods, rhetorical legitimation, social identities, and more.

Providing instructors with the flexibility to re-order chapters to meet the needs of their students, Discourse Analysis, Fourth Edition, is an ideal primary text for undergraduate and graduate courses in language and linguistics, language pedagogy, rhetoric and composition, and linguistic ethnography.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1394185162
• ISBN 13: 9781394185160
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 320