Fully revised and updated throughout, the new edition of Discourse Analysis is a user-friendly textbook for students taking their first course in linguistic approaches to discourse.


* Second edition of a popular introductory textbook, combining breadth of coverage, practical examples, and student-friendly features

* Includes new sections on metaphor, framing, stance and style, multimodal discourse, and Gricean pragmatics

* Considers a variety of approaches to the subject, including critical discourse analysis, conversation analysis, interactional and variationist sociolinguistics, ethnography, corpus linguistics, and other qualitative and quantitative methods

* Features detailed descriptions of the results of discourse analysts' work

* Retains and expands the useful student features, including discussion questions, exercises, and ideas for small research projects.