Introducing Discourse Analysis: From Grammar to Society - Hardcover

Gee, James Paul

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138298344 ISBN 13: 9781138298347

Publisher: Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

Introducing Discourse Analysis: From Grammar to Society is a concise and accessible introduction by bestselling author, James Paul Gee, to the fundamental ideas behind different specific approaches to discourse analysis, or the analysis of language in use. The book stresses how grammar sets up choices for speakers and writers to make, choices which express, not unvarnished truth, but perspectives or viewpoints on reality. In turn, these perspectives are the material from which social interactions, social relations, identity, and politics make and remake society and culture. The book also offers an approach to how discourse analysis can contribute to lessening the ideological divides and echo chambers that so bedevil our world today. Organized in a user-friendly way with short numbered sections and recommended readings, Introducing Discourse Analysis is an essential primer for all students of discourse analysis within linguistics, education, communication studies, and related areas.

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About the Author

James Paul Gee is Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies and Regents' Professor at Arizona State University, USA. He is author of a number of books, including How to do Discourse Analysis, Second Edition (Routledge, 2014), An Introduction to Discourse Analysis, Fourth Edition (Routledge, 2014), and Language and Learning in the Digital Age (Routledge, 2011). He is also the co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis (2011).

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138298344
• ISBN 13: 9781138298347
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 170