This is a sophisticated and nuanced treatment of discourse studies that covers a range of topics in an accessible, engaging style. This new updated edition features a greater range of examples of critical discourse analysis (CDA) in action, and across a wide range of disciplines, and extends its coverage of international methods and examples. Written by experts of the highest calibre from around the world, the third edition includes enhanced learning features as well as new material on: *Ethnographic approaches to critical discourse analysis *The interactional/conversational use of discourse *Multimodality Clearly written and practically focused but rigorous in its approach, this book is the ideal companion when embarking on research that focuses on discourse.
Chapter 1: Critical Discourse Studies: History, Agenda, Theory, and Methodology - Ruth Wodak & Michael Meyer Chapter 2: The Discourse-Historical Approach (DHA) - Martin Reisigl and Ruth Wodak Chapter 3: Critical Discourse Studies: A Sociocognitive Approach - Teun A. van Dijk Chapter 4: A dialectical-relation approach to critical discourse analysis in social research - Norman Fairclough Chapter 5: Analysing discourses and dispositives: a Foucauldian approach to theory and methodology - Siegfried Jager and Florentine Maier Chapter 6: Discourse as the recontextualization of social practice - a guide - Theo van Leeuwen Chapter 7: Checks and balances: how corpus linguistics can contribute to CDA - Gerlinde Mautner Chapter 8: Critical Analysis of Visual and Multimodal Texts - Dennis Jancsary, Markus A. Hollerer, Renate E. Meyer Chapter 9: Critical discourse studies and social media: power, resistance and critique in changing media ecologies - Majid KhosraviNik and Johann W. Unger