Introducing Discourse Analysis

James Paul Gee is Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies and Regents' Professor at Arizona State University, USA. He is author of a number of books, including How to do Discourse Analysis, Second Edition (Routledge, 2014), An Introduction to Discourse Analysis, Fourth Edition (Routledge, 2014), and Language and Learning in the Digital Age (Routledge, 2011). He is also the co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis (2011).

• PrefaceChapter 1: Preliminaries on LanguageChapter 2: System and SituationChapter 3: Clauses and SentencesChapter 4: Choice and Discourse AnalysisChapter 5: Identities and DiscoursesChapter 6: Connections and Discourse OrganizationChapter 7: NarrativeChapter 8: ToolsChapter 9: Perspectives, Frameworks, and Conversations

"In James Gee's Discourse Analysis, Gee persuasively argues for a grammar-based approach to analysing discourse. This volume is one of the clearest and most accessible introductions to discourse analysis available and is packed with good examples." David Barton, Lancaster University, UK"This book is both clearly written and conceptually enlightening. Rather than treating grammar as a dry theoretical system, Professor Gee sheds an engaging light on its power and its relationship to power, through the way it can enable or constrain people’s access to social goods and opportunities." Michael Handford, Cardiff University, UK