Discourse Analysis: An Introduction

by Brian Paltridge

Book Overview

This text presents a comprehensive, accessible introduction to discourse analysis. It examines different approaches to discourse, looking at discourse and society, discourse and pragmatics, discourse and conversation, discourse and genre, discourse grammar, corpus-based approaches to discourse and critical discourse analysis.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082648557X
• ISBN13: 9780826485571
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

exactly What I hoped for

Partridge has produced exactly the stlye of text that allows me to grasp Discourse Analysis, and build up to an intermediate level of understanding. Not a quick read, I took lots of notes and will save this text.