Discourse Analysis

A Introduction: Key Topics in the Study of Discourse Analysis 1. What is Discourse Analysis? 2. Texts and Texture 3. Texts and Their Social Functions 4. Discourse and Ideology 5. Spoken Discourse 6. Strategic Interaction 7. Context, Culture and Communication 8. Mediated Discourse Analysis 9. Multimodal Discourse Analysis 10. Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis B Development: Approaches to Discourse Analysis 1. Three Ways of Looking at Discourse 2. Cohesion and Coherence 3. All the Right Moves 4. Constructing Reality 5. The Texture of Talk 6. Negotiating Relationships and Activities 7. The SPEAKING Model 8. Mediation 9. Modes, Meaning and Action 10. Procedures for Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis C Exploration: Analyzing Discourse 1. Doing Discourse Analysis: First Steps 2. Analyzing Texture 3. Analyzing Genres 4. Other People's Voices 5. Analyzing Speech Acts 6. Analyzing Conversational Strategies 7. Analyzing Contexts 8. Doing Mediated Discourse Analysis 9. Doing Multimodal Discourse Analysis 10. Analyzing Corpora D Extension: Readings in discourse analysis 1. The Three Perspectives Revisited (Zellig Harris; Henry G. Widdowson; James Paul Gee) 2. Two Perspectives on tTxture (Michael A. K. Halliday and Ruqaiya Hasan; David Rumelhart) 3. Genres, Discourse Communities and Power (John Swales, Vijay K. Bhatia) 4. Ideologies in Discourse (Norman Fairclough; James Paul Gee) 5. Two Perspectives on Conversation (John L. Austin; Emanuel A. Schegloff and Harvey Sacks) 6. Frames in Interaction (Deborah Tannen and Cynthia Wallat) 7. The Ethnography of Communication (Dell Hymes; Muriel Saville-Troike) 8. Discourse and Action (Ron Scollon) 9. Two Perspectives on Multimodality (Gunther Kress, and Theo van Leeuwen; Sigrid Norris) 10. Finding 'Discourses' with Corpus-Assisted Analysis (Paul Baker, and Tony McEnery)

'In crystal clear, lively style, this book introduces an astonishing and welcome breadth of key concepts and topics in Discourse Analysis from the foundational to contemporary. Perfectly pitched for the beginning student, in this flawlessly structured text, Rodney Jones provides the reader with key terms, overview of the main approaches, an effective toolkit for independent work, and a great selection of primary readings. All this is illustrated with a wide range of contemporary, multimodal and, yes, fun examples. Adopt this textbook, appropriate Jones' erudition and elegance, dazzle your students and your course evaluations will soar.' - Adam Jaworski, University of Cardiff, UK 'This is a beautifully engaging text which will no doubt become a primary source for students and teachers of discourse analysis. Written in a highly accessible style with ample additional online content, Jones artfully draws the reader into and across the various sections, enhancing their interest to explore discourse analysis from various angles. The possibility to begin the exploration of approaches from any section in the book will allow its use in the broadest range of classes, leaving the structure of the course to the lecturer and the interests of the students.' - Sigrid Norris, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand 'Not just a reference book for students, it is also a useful book for university teachers and researchers who are pursuing discourse studies... a fascinating book. It is really worthy of reading and studying." - LINGUIST List