Rodney H. Jones is Head of the Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics at the University of Reading, UK.

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Acknowledgements

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: Analysing discourse

1 Doing discourse analysis: first steps

2 Analysing texture

3 Analysing genres

4 Other people's voices

5 Analysing speech acts

6 Analysing conversational strategies

7 Analysing contexts

8 Doing mediated discourse analysis

9 Analysing multimodality

10 Analysing corpora

D Extension: Readings in discourse analysis

1 The three perspectives revisited (Zellig Harris; Henry G. Widdowson; James Paul Gee)

2 Two perspectives on texture (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)

Further reading

References

Author index

Glossarial index