Understanding Discourse Analysis

Understanding Discourse Analysis provides students with an accessible and well-illustrated introduction to discourse analysis. Explaining the main terminology and frameworks and presenting key findings of discourse studies, this book:

• Explores the development of discourse analysis
• Covers four key approaches to analysing discourse
• Uses authentic spoken or written texts in all examples
• Features data from the Wellington Language in the Workplace Project database
• Includes examples from a wide range of languages from around the world, such as Chilean Spanish, Korean and Serbo-Croatian

Written by an active researcher, this textbook is a fascinating and engaging introduction to discourse analysis and is ideal for students studying this topic for the first time.

Bernadette Vine is Senior Researcher and Corpus Manager on the Language in the Workplace Project, based at the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (www.wgtn.ac.nz/lwp). Bernadette’s research interests include workplace communication, leadership and New Zealand English.