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Doing Discourse Research
An Introduction for Social Scientists

December 2012 | 176 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
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This book provides an introduction to the basic principles of discourse research, offering practical research strategies for doing discourse analyses in the social sciences. The book includes guidance on developing a research question, selecting data and analyzing it, and presenting the results. The author has extensive practical experience in the field of discourse research and shows, throughout, how the methods suggested are compatible with numerous research questions and problems in sociology, cultural, political and social studies and related disciplines.
 
The Current Relevance of Discourse Research
Preamble

 
Collective Orders of Knowledge and Discourses

 
 
Approaches in Discourse Research
The History of the Term 'Discourse'

 
Discourse Analysis

 
Discourse Linguistics and (Corpus-based)

 
Critical Discourse Analysis and Kritische Diskursanalyse

 

Culturalist Discourse Research

 
Discourse Theories

 
Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse

 
Further Disciplinary Developments

 
Summary

 
 
The Research Process
Concepts

 
Questions

 
General Foundations

 
 
Doing Discourse Research
Getting Started

 
The Exploration of the Field of Investigation

 
Selection of Data

 
Other Data Formats and Methods

 
 
The Detailed Analysis of Data
The Situational and Material Nature of a Statement

 
Formal and Linguistic-Rhetorical Structure

 
The Interpretative Analytics of Contents

 
 
From Detailed Analysis to Overall Results
From Utterances via Statements to Discourse and Beyond

 
Interpretation and Presentation of Results

 
 
Concluding Remarks

A fascinating exploration into the approaches of discourse research. The inclusion of discourse research outside the English-speaking world is a truly valuable contribution that the book makes.

Mr Rory Du Plessis
Department of Visual Arts, University of Pretoria
January 24, 2013
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