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Discourse Analysis: A Practical Introduction book cover

1st Edition

Discourse Analysis A Practical Introduction

By Patricia Canning, Brian Walker Copyright 2024
346 Pages 55 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

346 Pages 55 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

346 Pages 55 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Discourse Analysis provides an essential and practical introduction for students studying modules on the analysis of language in use. It explores the ways in which language is used and organised in written and spoken texts to generate meanings and takes into account the social contexts of production, and the social roles and identities of those involved. Investigating the ways in which... Read more
1.Why do discourse analysis?2.Analysing dialogic interactions3.Semantics in discourse – how meanings can alter depending on their context in a discourse4.Meaning and Context (pragmatics)5Politeness (PC) banter and use of emoji for impoliteness (mock impoliteness)6.Figurative meaning7.Linguistic forms and functions.8.Analysing discourse structure / information structure (micro and macro structure)9.Presentation of other people’s speech, writing and thought in discourse10.DA and Corpus linguistics11.Getting Forensic with the analysis of discourse12.Bringing it all together13.Concluding remarks

Biography

Patricia Canning is an assistant professor at Northumbria University, Newcastle (UK). Her recent publications include journal articles on the linguistic construction of domestic abuse police reports (2022; and with Nick Lynn, 2021). She is co-author of an independent report into what went wrong at the Champions League Final in Paris (2022) and has published research on the narrative evidence following the Hillsborough Football Stadium disaster (2018; 2021; 2023). She is author of Style in the Renaissance: Language and Control in Early Modern England (2011).

Brian Walker is a visiting scholar in the School of Arts, English and Languages at Queen's University Belfast, Belfast (UK). His published research focuses on corpus stylistics and using corpus linguistic approaches in the analysis of discourse.

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