Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-227) and indexes.

What is discourse analysis? -- Texts and texture -- Texts and their social functions -- Discourse and ideology -- Spoken discourse -- Strategic interaction -- Context, culture and communication -- Mediated discourse analysis -- Multimodal discourse analysis -- Corpus-assisted discourse analysis -- Three ways of looking at discourse -- Cohesion, coherence and intertextuality -- All the right moves -- Constructing reality -- The texture of talk -- Negotiating relationships and activities -- The SPEAKING model -- Mediation -- Modes, meaning and action -- Procedures for corpus-assisted discourse analysis -- Doing discourse analysis: first steps -- Analysing texture -- Analysing genres -- Competing ideologies -- Analysing speech acts and implicature -- Analysing conversational strategies -- Analysing contexts -- Doing mediated discourse analysis -- Analysing multimodality -- Analysing corpora -- Three perspectives on discourse / Zellig Harris; Henry G. Widdowson; James Paul Gee -- Three perspectives on texture / Michael A.K. Halliday and Ruqaiya Hasan, William Labov, Scollon et al. -- Genres, discourse communities and creativity / John Swales; Vijay K. Bhatia -- Ideologies in discourse / James Paul Gee, Jan Blommaert -- Two perspectives on conversation / John L. Austin, Emanuel A. Schegloff and Harvey Sacks -- Politeness and framing in interaction / Penelope Brown and Stephen Levinson; Deborah Tannen and Cynthia Wallat -- The ethnography of communication / Dell Hymes, Piia Varis -- Discourse and action / Ron Scollon, Rodney Jones -- Two perspectives on multimodality / Gunther Kress and Theo van Leeuwen, Sigrid Norris -- Corpus assisted discourse analysis / Paul Baker.

"Discourse Analysis, 2nd Edition: - provides a comprehensive overview of the major approaches to and methodological tools used in discourse analysis; - introduces both traditional perspectives on the analysis of texts and talk as well as more recent approaches that address technologically mediated and multimodal discourse; - incorporates practical examples using real data; - includes new articles from key authors in the field, including Jan Blommaert, William Labov, Paul Baker, Penelope Brown and Stephen Levinson; - is supported by a companion website featuring extra activities, additional guidance, useful links and multimedia examples including sound files and YouTube videos. Features of the new edition include: new readings featuring cutting-edge research; updated references; revised and refreshed examples; and a wider range of material from social media that includes Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat. Written by an experienced teacher and author, this accessible textbook is essential reading for all students of English language and linguistics"--