Discourse Analysis: An Introduction

Continuum Discourse Series

by Brian Paltridge

Discourse Analysis: An Introduction is a comprehensive, accessible introduction to discourse analysis. In a series of nine chapters the book examines different approaches to discourse, looking at discourse and society, discourse and pragmatics, discourse and genre, discourse and conversation, discourse grammar, corpus-based approaches to discourse and critical discourse analysis. The final chapter presents a practical approach to doing discourse analysis. The book includes the following features:

· Chapter summaries outlining the key areas covered.

· Examples drawn from films, television, newspapers, the classroom and everyday life

· Explanations of technical terms in each chapter

· Tasks at the end of each chapter

· Suggestions for further reading

This engagingly written, comprehensive introduction to discourse analysis is essential for students encountering discourse analysis for the first time, whether at undergraduate or postgraduate level. It should be on every reading list.

Genres: Linguistics, Language, Academic, Nonfiction

244 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2006

About the author

Brian Paltridge is Professor of TESOL at the University of Sydney. His most recent books are Ethnographic Perspectives on Academic Writing (with Sue Starfield and Christine Tardy, Oxford University Press, 2016), Getting Published in Academic Journals (with Sue Starfield, University of Michigan Press, 2016), and The Discourse of Peer Review (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). He is a former editor of TESOL Quarterly, and an editor emeritus for the journal English for Specific Purposes.

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