Discourse studies : a multidisciplinary introduction /

Discourse studies : a multidisciplinary introduction / edited by Teun A. van Dijk. - 2nd ed. - London : Sage Publications, 2011. - xviii, 414 p.: ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents

Contributor Biographies vii
Preface xv
1 Introduction: The Study of Discourse 1 (7)
Teun A. van Dijk
2 Discourse, Grammar and Interaction 8 (29)
Susanna Cumming
Tsuyoshi Ono
Ritva Laury
3 Discourse Semantics 37 (27)
Russell S. Tomlin
Linda Forrest
Ming Ming Pu
Myung Hee Kim
4 Narrative in Everyday Life 64 (21)
Elinor Ochs
5 Argumentation 85 (22)
Frans H. van Eemeren
Sally Jackson
Scott Jacobs
6 Discourse Semiotics 107(19)
Theo van Leeuwen
Gunther Kress
7 Discourse and Cognition 126(17)
Arthur C. Graesser
Keith Millis
8 Discourse Pragmatics 143(22)
Shoshana Blum-Kulka
Michal Hamo
9 Conversation Analysis: An Approach to the 165(26)
Analysis of Social Interaction
Anita Pomerantz
B.J. Fehr
10 Dialogue in Institutional Interactions 191(26)
Paul Drew
Marja-Leena Sorjonen
11 Gender and Power in Discourse 217(24)
Michelle M. Lazar
Cheris Kramarae
12 Discourse, Ethnicity and Racism 241(22)
Yasmin Jiwani
John E. Richardson
13 Discourse and Identity 263(20)
Anna De Fina
14 Organizational Discourse 283(20)
Dennis K. Mumby
Jennifer Mease
15 Discourse and Politics 303(28)
Paul Chilton
Christina Schaffner
16 Discourse and Culture 331(26)
Elizabeth Keating
Alessandro Duranti
17 Critical Discourse Analysis 357(22)
Norman Fairclough
Jane Mulderrig
Ruth Wodak
18 Discourse and Ideology 379(29)
Teun A. van Dijk
Index 408


Discourse Studies is the largest, most complete, most diverse and only multidisciplinary introduction to the field. A combined Second Edition of two seminal texts in the field (the 1997 titles Discourse as Social Interaction and Discourse as Structure and Process) 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 wholly new chapters on ideology and identity * puts the student at the centre, 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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