An Introduction to Discourse Analysis

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James Paul Gee is a Regents Professor, Emeritus, at Arizona State University and an elected member of the National Academy of Education. He is the author of many books and papers on linguistics, literacy, discourse analysis, and learning. His books include What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Literacy and Learning (2007), Introducing Discourse: From Grammar to Society (2017), and What is a Human? (2020).

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This bestselling textbook provides a comprehensive guide to conducting discourse analysis. This new edition is updated throughout with new examples and a new chapter on multimodal discourse analysis, demonstrating how Gee's approach can be applied to texts that combine language with other modes of communication like images or video.

Contenu

Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION

Chapter 2: WHAT IS DISCOURSE ANALYSIS?

Chapter 3: BUILDING TASKS

Chapter 4: TOOLS OF ENQUIRY AND DISCOURSE

Chapter 5: SOCIAL LANGUAGES, CONVERSATIONS,

AND INTERTEXTUALITY

Chapter 6: CONVERSATIONS AND INTERTEXTUALITY

Chapter 7: APPLYING THE TOOLS

Chapter 8: BASIC MEANINGS, SITUATIONAL MEANING AND FIGURED WORLDS

Chapter 9: FIGURED WORLDS

Chapter 10: MORE ON FIGURED WORLDS

Chapter 11: CONTEXT

Chapter 12: TRANSCRIPTION, AN IDEAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS, AND VALIDITY

Chapter 13: PROCESSING AND ORGANIZING LANGUAGE

Chapter 14: MEANING AND CHOICE

Chapter 15: SAMPLE OF DISCOURSE ANALYSIS 1

Chapter 16: SAMPLE OF DISCOURSE ANALYSIS 2

Chapter 17: MULTIMODALITY