Discourse Analysis Books

New and Published Books

1. Analyzing Public Discourse

   Discourse Analysis in the Making of Public Policy

   By Ron Scollon

   Analyzing Public Discourse demonstrates the use of discourse analysis to provide testimony in public policy consultations: from environmental impact statements to changes in laws and policies. Scollon asserts that it is in the best interest of democratic public discourse for all participants in the...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. Multilingualism, Discourse, and Ethnography

   Edited by Sheena Gardner, Marilyn Martin-Jones

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism

   Over the last twenty years, sociolinguistic research on multilingualism has been transformed. Two processes have been at work: first, an epistemological shift to a critical ethnographic approach, which has contributed to a larger turn toward post-structuralist perspectives on social life. Second,...

   Published May 8th 2012 by Routledge
3. New Perspectives on Narrative and Multimodality

   Edited by Ruth Page

   Series: Routledge Studies in Multimodality

   The contributors in this collection question what kinds of relationships hold between narrative studies and the recently established field of multimodality, evaluate how we might develop an analytical vocabulary which recognizes that stories do not consist of words alone, and demonstrate the...

   Published April 19th 2012 by Routledge
4. Political Discourse Analysis

   A Method for Advanced Students

   By Isabela Fairclough, Norman Fairclough

   In this accessible new textbook, Isabela and Norman Fairclough present their innovative approach to analysing political discourse. Political Discourse Analysis integrates analysis of arguments into critical discourse analysis and political discourse analysis. The book is grounded in a view of...

   Published January 22nd 2012 by Routledge
5. Discourse Analysis

   A Resource Book for Students

   By Rodney Jones

   Series: Routledge English Language Introductions

   Routledge English Language Introductions cover core areas of language study and are one-stop resources for students. Assuming no prior knowledge, books in the series offer an accessible overview of the subject, with activities, study questions, sample analyses, commentaries and key readings—all...

   Published January 15th 2012 by Routledge
6. Language, Identity, and Stereotype Among Southeast Asian American Youth

   The Other Asian

   By Angela Reyes

   This book—an ethnographic and discourse analytic study of an after-school video-making project for 1.5- and second-generation Southeast Asian American teenagers—explores the relationships among stereotype, identity, and ethnicity that emerge in this informal educational setting. ...

   Published January 12th 2012 by Routledge
7. The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis

   Edited by James Gee, Michael Handford

   Series: Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics

   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...

   Published November 15th 2011 by Routledge
8. Multimodality in Practice

   Investigating Theory-in-Practice-through-Methodology

   Edited by Sigrid Norris

   Series: Routledge Studies in Multimodality

   In this wide-ranging collection, leading scholars, researchers, and emergent researchers from around the world come together and present examples of multimodal discourse analysis in practice. The book illustrates new theoretical, methodological and empirical research into new...

   Published November 8th 2011 by Routledge
9. Stories and Social Media

   Identities and Interaction

   By Ruth E. Page

   Series: Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics

   This book examines everyday stories of personal experience that are published online in contemporary forms of social media. Taking examples from discussion boards, blogs, social network sites, microblogging sites, wikis, collaborative and participatory storytelling projects, Ruth Page explores how...

   Published November 8th 2011 by Routledge
10. Language in Late Capitalism

    Pride and Profit

    Edited by Alexandre Duchêne, Monica Heller

    Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism

    This book examines the ways in which our ideas about language and identity which used to be framed in national and political terms as a matter of rights and citizenship are increasingly recast in economic terms as a matter of added value. It argues that this discursive shift is connected to...

    Published October 16th 2011 by Routledge