An Introduction to Discourse Analysis: Theory and Method, 2nd Edition

✍ Scribed by James Paul Gee

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 222
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Discourse analysis considers how language, both spoken and written, enacts social and cultural perspectives and identities. In this book, James Paul Gee introduces the field and presents his unique integrated approach to it.Assuming no prior knowledge of linguistics, the author presents both a theory of language-in-use and a method of research. Clearly structured and written in a highly accessible style, An Introduction to Discourse Analysis incorporates perspectives from a variety of approaches and disciplines, including applied linguistics, education, psychology, anthropology and communication to help students and scholars from a range of backgrounds to formulate their own views on discourse and engage in their own discourse analysis. The second edition has been completely revised and updated and contains substantial new material and examples of oral and written language, ranging from group discussions with children, adults, students and teachers to conversations, interviews, academic texts and policy documents.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 12
1 Introduction......Page 14
2 Building tasks......Page 23
3 Tools of inquiry and discourses......Page 33
4 Social languages, conversations, and intertextuality......Page 48
5 Situated meanings and discourse models......Page 66
6 Discourse models......Page 84
7 Discourse analysis......Page 107
8 Processing and organizing language......Page 131
9 Sample of discourse analysis 1......Page 150
10 Sample of discourse analysis 2......Page 166
11 Sample of discourse analysis 3......Page 179
Appendix: grammar in communication......Page 195
References......Page 207
Index......Page 216

✦ Subjects

Языки и языкознание;Лингвистика;Дискурс и дискурс-анализ;