Michael Handford is Professor of Applied Linguistics and English Language in the Centre for Language and Communication Research. The Centre is in the School of English, Communication and Philosophy, Cardiff University, UK.James Paul Gee is Regents’ Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University, USA. He has worked in syntactic theory, discourse analysis, literacy studies and digital media and learning. He is the author of Sociolinguistics and Literacies (1990), The Social Mind (1992), An Introduction to Discourse Analysis (1999), What Video Games Have to Teach Us about Learning and Literacy (2003), Situated Language and Learning (2004) and What Is a Human? (2020) among other books.

• IntroductionJames Paul Gee and Michael HandfordI Approaches to Discourse AnalysisCritical Discourse AnalysisNorman FaircloughEvaluation and Discourse AnalysisTheo van Leeuwen and Joshua HanA Culturalist Approach to DiscourseShi-xuDiscursive Psychology and Discourse AnalysisBogdana Humă and Jonathan PotterConversation Analysis and Discourse AnalysisSteve E. Clayman and Virginia Teas GillInteractional Sociolinguistics and Discourse AnalysisJürgen JaspersDiscourse-Oriented EthnographyGraham SmartDiscourse Analysis and Linguistic AnthropologyJustin B. RichlandCorpus-Based Discourse AnalysisLynne FlowerdewMultimodal Discourse AnalysisGunther Kress, with an addendum by Jezz BezemerSystemic Functional Linguistics: Exploring Meaning in LanguageMary J. Schleppegrell and Teresa OteízaMetaphor and Discourse: A View from Extended Conceptual Metaphor TheoryZoltan KovecsesII Gender, Race and SexualitiesGender and Discourse AnalysisJennifer Coates and Pia PichlerQueer Linguistics and Discourse AnalysisWilliam L. LeapIntersectionality and Discourse AnalysisEbony Elizabeth Thomas, Autumn A. Griffin, and Stephanie R. ToliverDiscourse, Gender and Professional CommunicationLouise Mullany and Victoria Howard(Anti)Racism and DiscourseTeun A. van DijkIII Narrativity and DiscourseNarrative Analysis Joanna ThornborrowLiterary DiscoursePeter K. W. TanNarrative, Cognition and RationalityDavid R. OlsonIV Genre and RegisterRegister and Discourse AnalysisDouglas BiberGenre, Register and Discourse in Systemic Functional LinguisticsDavid RoseGenre as Social ActionCharles BazermanCritical Genre Analysis of Professional DiscourseVijay K. BhatiaV Spoken DiscourseProsody in DiscourseWinnie Cheng and Phoenix LamLexis in Spoken DiscourseMichael McCarthy and Paula ButteryEmergent GrammarPaul J. HopperVI Social Media and Online DiscourseSocial Media and Discourse AnalysisRodney H. Jones(Small) Stories Online: The Intersection of Affordances and PracticesAlexandra GeorgakopoulouOnline Identity and Discourse AnalysisCamilla Vasquez and Dacota LiskaVII Educational ApplicationsDiscourse and 'the New Literacy Studies'James Paul GeeEthnography and Classroom DiscourseAmy Bik-May TsuiEducation and BilingualismKaren Thompson, Soria Colomer and Kenji HakutaEnglish for academic purposes and discourse analysisKen HylandVIII Institutional ApplicationsDiscourse(s) and AdvertisingElsa SimõesDiscourse and News MediaMats EkströmDiscourse and Health(care)Gavin Brookes, Kevin Harvey and Svenja AdolphsDiscourses in the language of the lawEdward FineganEthnicity and Humour in the WorkplaceJulia deBres and Janet HolmesPolitics as Usual: Investigating Political Discourse in ActionRuth WodakCritical Policy Discourse AnalysisNicolina Montesano MontessoriIntercultural Discourse: Identity Perspectives on Business InteractionStefanie Stadler, Hale Işık-Güler and Helen Spencer-Oatey

A very readable, extensive and up-to-date resource for researchers and students of discourse analysis.Paul Baker, Lancaster University, UKThis edition contains an excellent overview of discourse analysis, defined in a very wide sense. It really gives a newcomer to the discipline a sense of the breadth and variety of the field. The chapters offer students and researchers interested in the analysis of discourse excellent, well-illustrated introductions to the most important theoretical and methodological approaches, written by some of the key figures in the field.Jane Mulderrig, University of Sheffield, UK