An Introduction to Discourse Analysis：Theory and Method

Discourseanalysisconsidershowlanguage,bothspokenandwritten,enactssocialandculturalperspectivesandidentities.Inthisbook,JamesPaulGeeintroducesthefieldandpresentshisuniqueintegratedapproachtoit.Assumingnopriorknowledgeoflinguistics,theauthorpresentsbothatheoryoflanguage-in-useandamethodofresearch.Clearlystructuredandwritteninahighlyaccessiblestyle,"AnIntroductiontoDiscourseAnalysis"incorporatesperspectivesfromavarietyofapproachesanddisciplines,includingappliedlinguistics,education,psychology,anthropologyandcommunicationtohelpstudentsandscholarsfromarangeofbackgroundstoformulatetheirownviewsondiscourseandengageintheirowndiscourseanalysis.Thesecondeditionhasbeencompletelyrevisedandupdatedandcontainssubstantialnewmaterialandexamplesoforalandwrittenlanguage,rangingfromgroupdiscussionswithchildren,adults,studentsandteacherstoconversations,interviews,academictextsandpolicydocuments.