Working with Discourse: Meaning Beyond the Clause - Softcover

Martin, J. R.; Rose, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826455085 ISBN 13: 9780826455086

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2003

Synopsis

This book is for researchers and students interested in exploring how speakers and writers construe meaning through discourse. It draws on tools for discourse analysis developed in systemic functional linguistics and register and genre theory but requires no prior knowledge of functional linguistics, avoiding academic complexity wherever possible. Rather it builds a highly accessible set of analytic tools that can be used with ease by workers from a range of disciplines, including educational research, critical discourse analysis, cultural studies, text linguistics and language and literacy teaching.

About this title

About the Author

J. R. Martin is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australia.David Rose is a Research Fellow in Education and an Honorary Associate in Linguistics, University of Sydney.

Review

'...a valuable conribution to the field of discourse analysis. It will be welcomed by academics but, at the same time, is relatively accessible to newcomers to this area. ' (Michelle L. Wells Discourse & Society)

'The most outstanding feature of Working with Discourse is its didactic value...The deliberate aviodance of obscure terminology is to be praised...This slowly paced format, the profuse use of visual representations (especially in Chapter 3), figures, and tables, and the intelligent use of entire texts as examples of various sets of phenomena make this book a most valuable instructional material...Working with Discourse is a fine and extensive (rather than intensive or in-depth) introduction to SFL discourse analysis, which will no doubt be preferred over existing ones due to its effective sequence and integration of theory and application.' (Javier N. Matinez Ramacciotti and Isolda E. Carranza Discourse & Society)

'...a valuable conribution to the field of discourse analysis. It will be welcomed by academics but, at the same time, is relatively accessible to newcomers to this area. ' (Sanford Lakoff Discourse & Society)

'The most outstanding feature of Working with Discourse is its didactic value...The deliberate aviodance of obscure terminology is to be praised...This slowly paced format, the profuse use of visual representations (especially in Chapter 3), figures, and tables, and the intelligent use of entire texts as examples of various sets of phenomena make this book a most valuable instructional material...Working with Discourse is a fine and extensive (rather than intensive or in-depth) introduction to SFL discourse analysis, which will no doubt be preferred over existing ones due to its effective sequence and integration of theory and application.' (Sanford Lakoff Discourse & Society)

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0826455085
• ISBN 13: 9780826455086
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304