Discourse Studies Reader - Essential Excerpts

Since 2005, the Continuum Discourse series, under the editorship of Professor Ken Hyland, has published some of the most cutting-edge work in the field of discourse analysis.This edited collection offers a showcase of the work produced by its authors and reads as fully-functional book in its own right. The work of Paul Baker, Frances Christie and Greg Myers features, amongst others.With an introduction by Professor Hyland, the chapters are organized thematically to provide a look a research methods, examine at the various types of institutional discourses covered by the series, and finally, a look to arguably the future of the field - electronic discourses in an electronic medium, for example Twitter, SMS and Blogs.This is an essential purchase for those involved in discourse analysis in any capacity.

About the author

Ken Hyland is Professor of Applied Linguistics in Education at the University of East Anglia, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Ken Hyland
• Assisted by: Ken Hyland (Editor), Professor Ken (University of East Anglia Hyland (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.04.2013
• EAN: 9781441179821
• ISBN: 978-1-4411-7982-1
• No. of pages: 360
• Series: Bloomsbury Discourse; Bloomsbury Discourse; Bloomsbury 3PL
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc