The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis (Paperback)

Michael Handford

ISBN 10: 1032458631 / ISBN 13: 9781032458632

Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd, London, 2025

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Paperback. The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis covers the major approaches to discourse analysis from critical discourse analysis to multimodal discourse analysis and their applications in key educational and institutional settings. The handbook is divided into eight sections: Approaches to Discourse Analysis, Gender, Race and Sexualities, Narrativity and Discourse, Genre and Register, Spoken Discourse, Social Media and Online Discourse, Educational Applications and Institutional Applications.The chapters are written by a wide range of contributors from around the world, each a leading researcher in their respective field. With a focus on the application of discourse analysis to real-life problems, the contributors introduce the reader to a topic and analyse authentic data. This fully revised second edition includes new sections on Gender, Race and Sexualities, Narrativity and Discourse, Genre and Register, Spoken Discourse, Social Media and Online Discourse and nine new chapters on topics such as digital communication and public policy and political discourse. This volume is vital reading for all students and researchers of discourse analysis in linguistics, applied linguistics, communication and cultural studies, social psychology and anthropology. The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis covers the major approaches to Discourse Analysis from Critical Discourse Analysis to Multimodal Discourse Analysis and their applications in key educational and institutional settings. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis (Paperback)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, London
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032458631
• ISBN 13: 9781032458632
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis covers the major approaches to discourse analysis from critical discourse analysis to multimodal discourse analysis and their applications in key educational and institutional settings. The handbook is divided into eight sections: Approaches to Discourse Analysis, Gender, Race and Sexualities, Narrativity and Discourse, Genre and Register, Spoken Discourse, Social Media and Online Discourse, Educational Applications and Institutional Applications.

The chapters are written by a wide range of contributors from around the world, each a leading researcher in their respective field. With a focus on the application of discourse analysis to real-life problems, the contributors introduce the reader to a topic and analyse authentic data. This fully revised second edition includes new sections on Gender, Race and Sexualities, Narrativity and Discourse, Genre and Register, Spoken Discourse, Social Media and Online Discourse and nine new chapters on topics such as digital communication and public policy and political discourse.

This volume is vital reading for all students and researchers of discourse analysis in linguistics, applied linguistics, communication and cultural studies, social psychology and anthropology.

About the Author

Michael Handford is Professor of Applied Linguistics and English Language in the Centre for Language and Communication Research. The Centre is in the School of English, Communication and Philosophy, Cardiff University, UK.

James Paul Gee is Regents’ Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University, USA. He has worked in syntactic theory, discourse analysis, literacy studies and digital media and learning. He is the author of Sociolinguistics and Literacies (1990), The Social Mind (1992), An Introduction to Discourse Analysis (1999), What Video Games Have to Teach Us about Learning and Literacy (2003), Situated Language and Learning (2004) and What Is a Human? (2020) among other books.