Discourse Studies
A Multidisciplinary Introduction
- Teun A Van Dijk - Pompeu Fabra University, Spain; Centre of Discourse Studies, Spain
Communication and Media Studies (General) | Discourse Analysis | Linguistics (General)
- Jan Blommaert, Tilburg University
"This very welcome updated second edition will allow Teun van Dijk's very popular Discourse Studies to consolidate its already strong and central position in the area. Featuring chapters written by so many of the leading scholars it will continue to be a stimulating and wide-ranging introduction to the discipline of discourse studies for new generations of students."
- Malcolm Coulthard, University of Birmingham
This book is the largest, most complete, most diverse and only multidisciplinary introduction to the field.
A combined Second Edition of two seminal texts in the field (the 1997 titles Discourse as Social Interaction and Discourse as Structure and Process) this essential handbook:
- Is fully updated from start to finish to cover contemporary debates and research literature.
- Covers everything from grammar, narrative, argumentation, cognition and pragmatics to social, political and critical approaches.
- Adds two new chapters on ideology and identity.
- Puts the student at the centre, offering brand new features such as worked examples, sample analyses and recommended further reading.
Written and edited by world-class scholars in their fields, it is the essential, one-stop companion for any student of discourse analysis and discourse studies.
An excellent and comprehensive introduction to discourse analysis - a very useful resource.
An excellent book on Discourse analysis of media texts. Sadly budgetary constraints of our students here in South Africa make it difficult for them to buy their own copies.
Very useful and clear. A good addition to our library.
This book is very well written, and I am personally grateful for the window into the many aspects of meaning conveyed through discourse that it illuminates. Coverage of advances in theory is well integrated with excellently chosen examples. The division into 'further reading', 'online reading' (of easily accessible articles') and references is particularly valuable. There are a number of chapters that I have found very useful for courses that I teach, and a couple that I will be recommending as supplemental reading on the MA module 'Culture in Context' - namely chapters 8 and 16. On the module 292ENL, I will use chapters 5 and 8.
This is a remarkably comprehensive collection, and this new edition is particularly welcome.
Great to have both original texts in one handy book!
An excellent, rounded text that will serve students well during their studies. The substantial contribution of the authors is both engaging and accessible.
A highly recommended read for anyone studying discourse analysis. Covers nearly all aspects of discourse with some solid examples and sample analyses to help students locate some of the core principles of discourse analysis into their own studies.
This is a remarkable resource. It provides students with the ability to interrogate discourses in key areas. The chapters on identity, organisation and politics are particularly useful.
I found this book to be an excellent introduction to Discourse for postgraduate students. It covers a wide range of understandings and definitions of discourse which will help students who often become confused with the different traditions of discourse. I found it to be highly accessible whilst not losing rigour. I particularly liked the extended reference lists for further reading.
Sample Materials & Chapters
Chapter 2: Principles shaping grammatical practices: an exploration
Chapter 2: The clause as a locus of grammar and interaction
Chapter 3: Schemata as scaffolding for the representation of information in con
Chapter 3: Rhetorical structure theory: Looking back and moving ahead
Chapter 3: Applications of rhetorical structure theory
Chapter 4: Account episodes in family discourse: the making of morality in ever
Chapter 4: Investigating narrative inequality: African asylum seekers’ stories
Chapter 4: The construction of moral agency in the narratives of high-school dr
Chapter 5: Strategic Manoeuvring in Argumentative Discourse
Chapter 5: Argumentative Discourse Theory and ‘Letters to the Editor
Chapter 5: Reasoning Dialogues
Chapter 6: A system for image-text relations in new (and old) media
Chapter 6: Systemic functional-multimodal discourse analysis (SF-MDA)
Chapter 6: Multimodality, resemiotization: extending the analysis of discourse
Chapter 7: Views from a cognitive scientist
Chapter 7: Source evaluation, comprehension, and learning in Internet science i
Chapter 8: Critical Discourse Analysis and Conversation Analysis p1
Chapter 8: Critical Discourse Analysis and Conversation Analysis p2
Chapter 8: Critical Discourse Analysis and Conversation Analysis p3
Chapter 8: Critical Discourse Analysis and Conversation Analysis p4
Chapter 8: Being politically impolite: Extending politeness theory to adversari
Chapter 9: Multimodal resources for turn-taking: pointing and the emergence of
Chapter 9: Directives: Entitlement and contingency in action
Chapter 9: A note on laughter in “male-female” interaction
Chapter 10: Managing prospect affiliation and rapport in business-to-business s
Chapter 10: Silly questions and their answers in police-suspect interrogations
Chapter 11: Entitled to consume: postfeminist femininity and a culture of post-
Chapter 11: Gender relevance in talk-in-interaction and discourse
Chapter 12: The language of “race” and prejudice: a discourse of denial, reason
Chapter 12: The veil as a means of legitimization: an analysis of the interconn
Chapter 12: Right-wing parliamentary discourse on immigration in France
Chapter 13: Identity and interaction: a sociocultural linguistic Approach
Chapter 13: The discursive construction of national identities
Chapter 14: Resistance through consent? Occupational identity, organizational f
Chapter 14: Politeness, power and provocation: how humour functions in the work
Chapter 14: Principles of critical discourse analysis
Chapter 15: Critical discourse analysis of political press conferences
Chapter 15: Politeness, politics and democracy
Chapter 15: An ideological/cultural analysis of political slogans in Communist
Chapter 15: Meeting the challenge on the path to democracy: discursive strategi
Chapter 15: Discourse analysis and social analysis
Chapter 15: Discourse semantics and ideology
Chapter 15: The linguistic pragmatics of terrorist acts
Chapter 16: Managing misunderstandings: the role of language in interdisciplina
Chapter 16: Husserl, intersubjectivity and anthropology
Chapter 17: Critical discourse analysis and the marketization of public discour
Chapter 17: Informalization in UK party election broadcasts 1966–97
Chapter 17: Mediation between discourse and society: assessing cognitive approa
Chapter 18: Stacking the cars of ideology: The history of the ”Sun Souvenir Roy
Chapter 18: “I am not a racist…”: mapping White college students’ racial ideolo
Chapter 18: Understanding the new management ideology: a transdisciplinary cont
Chapter 18: Ideology in the US welfare debate: neo-liberal representations of p
Chapter 18: Discourse Semantics and Ideology
