Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

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