Discourse Analysis

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERYour ultimate guide to the art of winning argumentsEveryone is always trying to persuade us of something: politicians,...

Prophecy reimagines the world. It critiques what is and encourages its audience to imagine what could be. All prophecy, therefore, begins with a pe...

Intentions in Comedy Discourse presents a systematic pragmatic analysis of stand-up comedy. Drawing on previous literature on humour, socio-cogniti...

How algorithms shape democratic discourse and determine the ways we think, talk, and act in networked spaces.

How algorithms shape democratic discourse and determine the ways we think, talk, and act in networked spaces.

This user-friendly student guide is the essential resource for all those engaged in studying systemic functional linguistics (SFL).Assuming no prio...

First published in 1992, Vocabularies of Public Life explores the revolution that has taken place in our understanding of contemporary culture and ...

This collection highlights new perspectives on the work of Erving Goffman, revisiting his place in contemporary social theory and interactional lin...

This collection explores the communicative dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana, redressing the absence of perspectives from Africa and the...

Drawing on a corpus of 113 narratives told by migrant workers who have returned to their home country, Ladegaard details Indonesian and Filipina (d...

How do people talk about marriage? Who gets to do the talking? When, why, where and how do these things change? From the experiences of women force...

This book examines the discourse around the intricate economic, political, and ideological struggles underlying Canadian fuel extractivism. Focusin...

Across many social and commercial domains, governments regulate the official names used to identify individuals, groups, places, companies & pr...

First published in 1984, Face Value confronts the pervasive power of beauty through art and literature, as well as interviews with men and women wi...

The editors of this volume have combined their expertise in discourse, contradiction, minority and diversity studies to suggest a change of perspe...

This book critically examines the ways that collective pasts are commemorated and contested in a wide variety of national locations, media and genr...

As a founder and leading figure in multimodality and social semiotics, Theo van Leuween has made significant contributions to a variety of research...

This book brings together the work of leading theorist, Theo van Leeuwen, on typography, colour, texture, sound and movement, and shows how they ar...

This book explores multiple facets of femininity for marriage in India. Using language as an entry point, it looks at how and why media representat...

Understanding Discourse Analysis provides students with an accessible and well-illustrated introduction to discourse analysis. Explaining the main ...

This groundbreaking work takes multimodality studies in a new direction by applying multimodal approaches to the study of poetry and poetics. The b...

This collection highlights the interplay between language and liminal places and spaces in building distinct narratives of selfhood. The book uses ...