Discourse analysisGillian Brown George Yule

1000 د.ج

Discourse Analysis has different meanings across disciplines: sociolinguists focus on the structure of social interaction in conversation, psycholinguists on how readers understand short written texts, and computational linguists on building models that interpret texts in restricted contexts.

This textbook offers a comprehensive survey of these varied approaches, but its core perspective is rooted in linguistics. Using methods similar to descriptive linguistics, the authors explain clearly how language forms function in real communication.

The book examines how spoken and written language is used purposefully in context, illustrated with a wide range of examples such as conversations, newspaper extracts, notices, fiction, and graffiti. The analytical techniques are explained in enough detail for students to apply them independently to any contextualized language sample.

Although it assumes basic linguistic knowledge, the breadth of topics and examples makes it valuable not only for linguistics students but for anyone interested in how language communicates meaning in natural situations.

“Well-written, inspiring, and an essential resource for anyone studying discourse analysis.”