An Introduction to Discourse Analysis

This bestselling textbook provides a comprehensive guide to conducting discourse analysis. This new edition is updated throughout with new examples and a new chapter on multimodal discourse analysis, demonstrating how Gee's approach can be applied to texts that combine language with other modes of communication like images or video.

James Paul Gee is a Regents Professor, Emeritus, at Arizona State University and an elected member of the National Academy of Education. He is the author of many books and papers on linguistics, literacy, discourse analysis, and learning. His books include What Video Games Have to Teach Us about Literacy and Learning (2007), Introducing Discourse: From Grammar to Society (2017), and What Is a Human? (2020).

Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION Chapter 2: WHAT IS DISCOURSE ANALYSIS? Chapter 3: BUILDING TASKS Chapter 4: TOOLS OF ENQUIRY AND DISCOURSE Chapter 5: SOCIAL LANGUAGES, CONVERSATIONS, AND INTERTEXTUALITY Chapter 6: CONVERSATIONS AND INTERTEXTUALITY Chapter 7: APPLYING THE TOOLS Chapter 8: BASIC MEANINGS, SITUATIONAL MEANINGS, AND FIGURED WORLDS Chapter 9: FIGURED WORLDS Chapter 10: MORE ON FIGURED WORLDS Chapter 11: CONTEXT Chapter 12: TRANSCRIPTION, AN "IDEAL" DISCOURSE ANALYSIS, AND VALIDITY Chapter 13: PROCESSING AND ORGANIZING LANGUAGE Chapter 14: MEANING AND CHOICE Chapter 15: SAMPLE OF DISCOURSE ANALYSIS 1 Chapter 16: SAMPLE OF DISCOURSE ANALYSIS 2 Chapter 17: MULTIMODALITY