Discourse analysis means doing analysis: A critique of six analytic shortcomings (original) (raw)

Discourse analysis as theory and method

2002

Contents Preface vii 1. The field of discourse analysis 1 2. Laclau and Mouffe's discourse theory 24 3. Critical discourse analysis 60 4. Discursive psychology 96 5. Across the approaches 138 6. Critical social constructionist research 175 References 213 Index 223

Discourse Analysis: The Questions Discourse Analysts Ask and How They Answer Them

2019

To say that discourse analysis is a chameleon in the social sciences would not be an overstatement; it is a research method, a perspective, and a subject in its own right. It is employed and studied by scholars in a wide range of disciplines, including linguistics, applied linguistics, sociology, anthropology, psychology, education, and many more. The multi- and inter-disciplinary nature of discourse analysis, however, is both the reason for its appeal and a source of confusion for beginning analysts. Discourse Analysis: The Questions Analysts Ask and How They Answer Them sets out to identify core inquiries that discourse analysts aspire to answer. Inspired by years of teaching Discourse Analysis at the graduate level, Waring's goal is to "introduce [the] vastness and diversity [of discourse analysis] to beginning students of discourse" by presenting "the kinds of questions discourse analysts ask and how they answer them" (p. 3-4). This book, then, seeks to h...

Analyzing discourse

1994

The label 'discourse analysis' has been applied in very different ways in the social sciences, and before attempting to explicate discourse analysis as a method it is important to be clear what we mean by it. There are at least four types of work that have commonly been described in this way. The first is influenced by speech act theory and directed at a systematic account of the organization of conversational exchange in settings such as classrooms (eg Coulthard and Montgomery 1981).

Approahces to Discourse Analysis

Advances in Discourse Studies brings together contributions from top scholars in the fi eld, investigating the historical and theoretical relationships between new advances in discourse studies and pointing towards new directions for the future of the discipline. Covering areas such as conversation analysis, corpus-based discourse analysis and genre analysis, this book provides a unique survey of the most recent advances in methodology and approach to discourse analysis.