Rodney H. Jones is Professor of Sociolinguistics at the University of Reading, UK. His other titles with Routledge include Language and Media: A Resource Book for Students, Second Edition (with Sylvia Jaworska and Erhan Aslan, Routledge 2020) and Understanding Digital Literacies: A Practical Introduction, Second Edition (with Christoph A. Hafner, Routledge 2021). He is also editor of The Routledge Handbook of Language and Creativity (Routledge 2015).

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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, coherence and intertextuality
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 Competing Discourses
5 Analysing speech acts
6 Conversational strategies online
7 Analysing contexts
8 Doing mediated discourse analysis
9 Analysing multimodality
10 Analysing corpora

D Extension: Research in discourse analysis
1 The little texts in our lives
2 Texture: Old and new
3 Online genres and discourse communities
4 Ideologies in discourse
5 Conversations in online 'dating' and 'grooming'
6 'Coaching' and 'bragging': Positioning and politeness in discourse
7 Ethnographic approaches to discourse analysis
8 Discourse and action
9 Identity, stereotypes, and multimodal discourse analysis
10 Corpus-assisted discourse analysis

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