Discourse Analysis (Introducing Linguistics) - Softcover

Johnstone, Barbara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0631208771 ISBN 13: 9780631208778

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2001

Synopsis

Discourse Analysis is an ideal textbook for students taking a first course in linguistic approaches to discourse.

About this title

About the Author

Barbara Johnstone is Professor of Rhetoric and Linguistics at Carnegie Mellon University. She is the author of Stories, Community, and Place(1990), Repetition in Arabic Discourse (1991), The Linguistic Individual (1996), and Qualitative Methods in Sociolinguistics (2000) as well as many articles, book chapters, and edited volumes.

From the Back Cover

Discourse Analysis is an ideal textbook for students taking a first course in linguistic approaches to discourse. It presupposes no previous coursework in linguistics. It is designed to encourage students to think about discourse analysis as an open-ended heuristic, a set of techniques for systematically studying every possible source of the meaning of a sequence of speech or writing.

Chapters cover the complex relationships between discourse and various aspects of context, such as linguistic structure, participants and prior discourse. Discussion questions and ideas for small research projects are interspersed throughout. Each chapter ends with a set of suggested supplementary readings.

Clearly written, accessible, up to date, and comprehensive, Discourse Analysis is useful for teachers and students in many disciplines.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0631208771
• ISBN 13: 9780631208778
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 269