Discourse Analysis

Patricia Canning is an assistant professor at Northumbria University, Newcastle (UK). Her recent publications include journal articles on the linguistic construction of domestic abuse police reports (2022; and with Nick Lynn, 2021). She is co-author of an independent report into what went wrong at the Champions League Final in Paris (2022) and has published research on the narrative evidence following the Hillsborough Football Stadium disaster (2018; 2021; 2023). She is author of Style in the Renaissance: Language and Control in Early Modern England (2011).Brian Walker is a visiting scholar in the School of Arts, English and Languages at Queen's University Belfast, Belfast (UK). His published research focuses on corpus stylistics and using corpus linguistic approaches in the analysis of discourse.

• 1.Why do discourse analysis?2.Analysing dialogic interactions3.Semantics in discourse – how meanings can alter depending on their context in a discourse4.Meaning and Context (pragmatics)5Politeness (PC) banter and use of emoji for impoliteness (mock impoliteness)6.Figurative meaning7.Linguistic forms and functions.8.Analysing discourse structure / information structure (micro and macro structure)9.Presentation of other people’s speech, writing and thought in discourse10.DA and Corpus linguistics11.Getting Forensic with the analysis of discourse12.Bringing it all together13.Concluding remarks

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