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Addressing the practicalities of research, and embracing the complexity and variety of written forms of language, this book: grounds readers in a broad range of concepts, debates and relevant methods; focuses on both theoretical questions and the 'how to' of analysis; and draws on data from international and multilingual communities.
List of contents
Introduction
Preliminaries
Discourse and Discourse Analysis
Speech and Writing: The Debate on Difference
Writing, Technologies and Media
Scripts and Spelling
Approaches
Approaches to Written Discourse: An Initial Orientation
Critical Discourse Analysis
Corpus-Based Discourse Analysis
Multimodal Discourse Analysis
Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis
Multilingual Discourse Analysis
Applications
Working with Written Discourse in Social Research
Designing Your Own Projects
About the author
Deborah Cameron teaches at Oxford University, where she is Professor of Language and Communication. Her main research interests are in sociolinguistics, discourse analysis and the study of gender and sexuality; her previous publications include Working with Spoken Discourse (2001) and Working with Written Discourse (with Ivan Panovic, 2014), Good to Talk? (2000),The Myth of Mars and Venus (2007), and Verbal Hygiene (1995/2012).
Ivan Panovic received his doctorate from Oxford University, where he went on to spend two years as a postdoctoral research fellow in Arabic sociolinguistics. He is now Assistant Professor of sociolinguistics at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. His book Literacies in Contemporary Egypt will be published in 2014.
Report
Working with Written Discourse in three words: erudite, elegant, engaging. Grounded in an extensive, up-to-date literature, Cameron and Panovic provide here a beautifully and sensibly organized introduction to the field. With constant opportunities for further reflection and discussion, the book is also chock-a-block with contemporary examples and fresh ideas for hands-on practice. I would no, I will use this book as a core text in my graduate seminars as readily as I will my undergraduate courses. Cameron s Working with Spoken Discourse has been a key text in my classes for over a decade; my only (quite unreasonable) gripe being that it didn t offer me enough on things like new media discourse and multimodal discourse. Well, here we have it: a perfect complement. And much more besides. Professor Crispin Thurlow
