Positioning Gender in Discourse

JUDITH BAXTER is Research Fellow in Linguistics at The Reading and Language Information Centre, University of Reading, UK. She has written a number of school textbooks and contributed to books for teacher education in language and literature. Among her recent publications is Speaking Out: The Female Voice in Contexts, also published by Palgrave Macmillan.

• Introduction A Working Partnership? FPDA - A Supplementary Approach to Discourse Analysis? Getting to Grips with FPDA Developing an FPDA Approach: The Classroom Study The Classroom Study Developing an FPDA Approach: The Management Team Study The Management Team Study Why Choose To Use FPDA? Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Appendix 3 Bibliography Index

'The strength of the book lies in the theoretical chapters that clearly define components of FDPA. Overall, Baxter makes a convincing case for the usefulness of FDPA as a supplementary tool in the discourse analyst's repertoire' - Adam Hodges, University of Colorado, in Discourse & Society .