Introduction to Discourse Studies: New edition

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John Benjamins Publishing Company, Nov 15, 2018 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 453 pages
This new edition of Introduction to Discourse Studies (IDS) is a thoroughly revised and updated version of this successful textbook, which has been published in four languages and has become a must-read for anyone interested in the analysis of texts and discourses. Supported by an international advisory board of 14 leading experts, it deals with all main subdomains in discourse studies, from pragmatics to cognitive linguistics, from critical discourse analysis to stylistics, and many more. The book approaches major issues in this field from the Anglo-American and European as well as the Asian traditions. It provides an ‘academic toolkit’ for future courses on discourse studies and serves as a stepping stone to the independent study of professional literature. The chapters are subdivided in modular sections that can be studied separately. The pedagogical objectives are further supported by
over 500 index entries covering frequently used concepts that are accurately defined with examples throughout the text;
more than 150 test-yourself questions, all elaborately answered, which are ideal for self-study;
nearly 100 assignments that provide ample material for lecturers to focus on specific topics in their courses.


Jan Renkema is Emeritus Professor of Discourse Quality at the Department of Communication and Information Sciences at Tilburg University, The Netherlands. He is also editor of Discourse, of Course (2009) and author of The Texture of Discourse (2009). In 2009, a Chinese edition of Introduction to Discourse Studies was published by Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press.
Christoph Schubert is Full Professor of English Linguistics at Vechta University, Germany. He is author of an Introduction to English text linguistics (2nd ed. 2012) and co-editor of Pragmatic Perspectives on Postcolonial Discourse (2016) and Variational Text Linguistics (2016).

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Contents

10 Informative discourse
233
11 Narratives
253
12 Argumentation and persuasion
267
Part IV Special interests
285
13 Discourse and cognition
287
14 Discourse and institution
315
15 Discourse and culture
345
Key to the questions
369

7 Contextual phenomena
151
8 Style and stylistics
181
Part III Special modes of communication
213
9 Conversation analysis
215
References
421
Index
449
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