What Is Discourse Analysis? (Paperback)

Introduction Section 1.1: What is discourse analysis? Section 1.2: Key terms An academic history of discourse analysis Three examples of discourse analysis Section 3.1: The construction of prejudice Section 3.2: Gender in talk Section 3.3: Discourses of health and illness The usefulness of discourse analysis for social science researchers Section 4.1: Reasons to use discourse analysis and language data Section 4.2: Different forms of data Section Section 4.3: Obtaining data The challenges of discourse analysis Criticisms of discourse analysis Summary Index