Discourse Studies: A Multidisciplinary Introduction - Softcover

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9781848606494: Discourse Studies: A Multidisciplinary Introduction

Synopsis

Discourse Studies is the largest, most complete, most diverse and only multidisciplinary introduction to the field. Now combined into a single volume, this essential handbook:

  • is fully updated from start to finish to cover contemporary debates and research literature
  • covers everything from grammar, narrative, argumentation, cognition and pragmatics to social, political and critical approaches
  • adds two new chapters on ideology and identity
  • puts the student at the center, offering brand new features such as worked examples, sample analyses and recommended further reading

Written and edited by world-class scholars in their fields, it is the essential, one-stop companion for any student of discourse analysis and discourse studies.

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About the Author

Teun A. van Dijk is a Visiting Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. From 1980 to 2006 he held a personal chair as Professor of Discourse Studies at the University of Amsterdam. A world leading scholar of discourse studies and author of over 250 books and articles, he edits the SAGE journals Disourse & Society, Discourse Studies, and Discourse and Communication.

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