Product Review

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.