Stephanie Taylor is Senior Lecturer in Psychology in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Open Unviersity. In her current post she has produced and presented popular undergraduate and postgraduate modules on social sciences, social psychology and research methods, including ethnography and discourse analysis. Her own research, on identity and processes of identification and subjectification, is interdisciplinary, with a strong focus on methodology. Her most recent books are Narratives of Identity and Place (2009) and the two introductory texts Making Social Lives and Exploring Social Lives, co-edited with S.Hinchliffe, J.Clarke and S. Bromley (2009).

• Chapter 1: Introduction Section 1.1: What is discourse analysis? Section 1.2: Key termsChapter 2: An academic history of discourse analysisChapter 3: Three examples of discourse analysisSection 3.1: The construction of prejudice Section 3.2: Gender in talk Section 3.3: Discourses of health and illness Chapter 4: The usefulness of discourse analysis for social science researchers Section 4.1: Reasons to use discourse analysis and language dataSection 4.2: Different forms of data Section Section 4.3: Obtaining dataChapter 5: The challenges of discourse analysisChapter 6: Criticisms of discourse analysisChapter 7: Summary Index

[This book] offers a coherent and wide-ranging introduction to the major developments in discourse analysis, from the very beginning to the present day ... Detailed, coherent and accessible ... an excellent resource, particularly for postgraduate students who want to pursue discourse analysis further.

Stephanie Taylor is Senior Lecturer in Psychology in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Open Unviersity. In her current post she has produced and presented popular undergraduate and postgraduate modules on social sciences, social psychology and research methods, including ethnography and discourse analysis. Her own research, on identity and processes of identification and subjectification, is interdisciplinary, with a strong focus on methodology. Her most recent books are Narratives of Identity and Place (2009) and the two introductory texts Making Social Lives and Exploring Social Lives, co-edited with S.Hinchliffe, J.Clarke and S. Bromley (2009).

• Chapter 1: Introduction Section 1.1: What is discourse analysis? Section 1.2: Key termsChapter 2: An academic history of discourse analysisChapter 3: Three examples of discourse analysisSection 3.1: The construction of prejudice Section 3.2: Gender in talk Section 3.3: Discourses of health and illness Chapter 4: The usefulness of discourse analysis for social science researchers Section 4.1: Reasons to use discourse analysis and language dataSection 4.2: Different forms of data Section Section 4.3: Obtaining dataChapter 5: The challenges of discourse analysisChapter 6: Criticisms of discourse analysisChapter 7: Summary Index

[This book] offers a coherent and wide-ranging introduction to the major developments in discourse analysis, from the very beginning to the present day ... Detailed, coherent and accessible ... an excellent resource, particularly for postgraduate students who want to pursue discourse analysis further.

Stephanie Taylor is Senior Lecturer in Psychology in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Open Unviersity. In her current post she has produced and presented popular undergraduate and postgraduate modules on social sciences, social psychology and research methods, including ethnography and discourse analysis. Her own research, on identity and processes of identification and subjectification, is interdisciplinary, with a strong focus on methodology. Her most recent books are Narratives of Identity and Place (2009) and the two introductory texts Making Social Lives and Exploring Social Lives, co-edited with S.Hinchliffe, J.Clarke and S. Bromley (2009).

• Chapter 1: Introduction Section 1.1: What is discourse analysis? Section 1.2: Key termsChapter 2: An academic history of discourse analysisChapter 3: Three examples of discourse analysisSection 3.1: The construction of prejudice Section 3.2: Gender in talk Section 3.3: Discourses of health and illness Chapter 4: The usefulness of discourse analysis for social science researchers Section 4.1: Reasons to use discourse analysis and language dataSection 4.2: Different forms of data Section Section 4.3: Obtaining dataChapter 5: The challenges of discourse analysisChapter 6: Criticisms of discourse analysisChapter 7: Summary Index

[This book] offers a coherent and wide-ranging introduction to the major developments in discourse analysis, from the very beginning to the present day ... Detailed, coherent and accessible ... an excellent resource, particularly for postgraduate students who want to pursue discourse analysis further.