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 six sections: Approaches to Discourse Analysis, Register and Genre, Developments in Spoken Discourse, Educational Applications, Institutional Applications and Identity, Culture and Discourse.The chapters are written by a wide range of contributors from around the world, each a leading researcher in their respective field. All chapters have been closely edited by James Paul Gee and Michael Handford. 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. The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis is vital reading for linguistics students as well as students of communication and cultural studies, social psychology and anthropology.
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1. Approaches to Discourse Analysis 2. Register and Genre 3. Developments in Spoken Discourse 4. Educational Applications 5. Institutional Applications 6. Identity, Culture and Discourse
‘This discourse analysis handbook wins hands down as the most intellectually responsible in the field - both in terms of the comprehensiveness of the topics considered and the international spectrum of specialists involved.’James Martin, University of Sydney, Australia ‘The Handbook of Discourse Analysis is accessible to undergraduates and yet a state-of-the-art introduction for graduate students and practicing researchers in a wide range of fields. There are many introductions to or handbooks of Discourse Analysis available today. This is the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and internationally representative of them all.’Sarah Michaels, Clark University, USA
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780415709781
Publisert
2013-08-29
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
1216 gr
Høyde
246 mm
Bredde
174 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
712

Biographical note

James Paul Gee is the Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies at Arizona State University. He is the author of many titles including An Introduction to Discourse Analysis (1999, Third Edition 2011); How to do Discourse Analysis (2011) and Language and Learning in the Digital Age (2011), all published by Routledge.

Michael Handford is Associate Professor in English Language at the University of Tokyo. He is the author of 'The Language of Business Meetings' (2010).