Discourse Analysis (Introducing Linguistics) | 
 enlarge | Author: Barbara Johnstone
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
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Pages: 269
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Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 6.7 x 0.9
ISBN: 0631208771
Dewey Decimal Number: 401.41
EAN: 9780631208778
ASIN: 0631208771
Publication Date: January 3, 2002
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Product Description
Discourse Analysis is an ideal textbook for students taking a first course in linguistic approaches to discourse.
Book Description
This popular introductory textbook is now available in a revised and updated second edition. Assuming no previous background in linguistics, it encourages students to think about discourse analysis as an open-ended set of techniques, carefully balancing the coverage of topics with extensive practical examples. Johnstone 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. Detailed descriptions of the results of discourse analysts' work are also featured. The second edition of this book retains and expands the useful student features, including discussion questions, exercises, and ideas for small research projects. This combination of breadth of coverage, practical examples, and student-friendly features make Discourse Analysis the ideal textbook for students taking their first course in linguistic approaches to discourse.
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Theory & Practice Together October 31, 2007
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I'm currently in a discourse analysis seminar, and Dr. Johnstone is my teacher, so I get the interesting experience of having the textbook author at hand. That being said, I don't think it makes much of a difference in the utility of the textbook. It is an emminently clear, very readable introductory work that allows the reader to jump into practice with each aspect of theory introduced.
As a discourse analysis practitioner I will want to go deeper into the primary texts that are introduced in this work, but I have still been able to understand and apply methodologies that are intorduced, in practice, on selections of discourse I've chosen. I really like that aspect of the textbook--here's some theory that can be grouped in some way, here are some methodologies that are amenable to this approach, and here's soem examples that you can model off of.
As a student coming from an entirely literary critical background--no linguistics, communication, semiotics, even grammar in my background--I was really worried at the start of the seminar. The textbook has been a huge help in allowing me to feel comfortable and make a large jump from what I already knew to what is very new territory for me.
Highly recoomend this as the base text for a seminar in DA.
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