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This bestselling textbook is the ideal companion to An Introduction to Discourse Analysis: Theory and Method, by leading author, James Paul Gee.
Using a practical how-to approach, Gee provides the tools necessary to work with discourse analysis, with engaging step-by-step tasks featured throughout the book. Each tool is clearly explained, along with guidance on how to use it, and authentic data is provided for readers to practice using the tools. Readers from all fields will gain both a practical and theoretical background in how to do discourse analysis and knowledge of discourse analysis as a distinctive research methodology.
Updated throughout, this second edition also includes a new tool- 'The Big C Conversation Tool'. A new companion website www.routledge.com/cw/gee features a frequently asked questions section, additional tasks to support understanding, a glossary and free access to journal articles by James Paul Gee.
How to do Discourse Analysis: A Toolkit is an essential book for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students working in the areas of applied linguistics, education, psychology, anthropology and communication.
List of contents
Introduction 1. Language and Context 2. Saying, Doing and Designing 3. Building Things in the World 4. Theoretical Tools
Conclusion
About the author
James Paul Gee is Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies at Arizona State University, USA. He is author of a number of books, including
An Introduction to Discourse Analysis, fourth edition, Language and Learning in the Digital Age and is co-editor of
The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis.
Summary
How to do Discourse Analysis: A Toolkit is the essential guide to doing discourse analysis, from James Paul Gee, bestselling author of An Introduction to Discourse Analysis: Theory and Method. This second edition includes new examples, especially from digital media, a more user-friendly and accessible layout and a companion website.
