The Cambridge Handbook of Discourse Studies

A state-of-the-field survey of the key topics in Discourse Studies, written for the 21st century.

Anna De Fina (Edited by), Alexandra Georgakopoulou (Edited by)

9781108425148, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 15 October 2020

762 pages, 21 b/w illus. 5 tables
25 x 17.6 x 4 cm, 1.52 kg

'The Cambridge Handbook of Discourse Studies truly captures what it means to study discourse in the 21st century.' Veronika Koller, Lancaster University

Discourse studies, the study of the ways in which language is used in texts and contexts, is a fast-moving and increasingly diverse field. With contributions from leading and upcoming scholars from across the world, and covering cutting-edge research, this Handbook offers an up-to-date survey of Discourse Studies. It is organized according to perspectives and areas of engagement, with each chapter providing an overview of the historical development of its topic, the main current issues, debates and synergies, and future directions. The Handbook presents new perspectives on well-established themes such as narrative, conversation-analytic and cognitive approaches to discourse, while also embracing a range of up-to-the-minute topics from post-humanism to digital surveillance, recent methodological orientations such as linguistic landscapes and multimodal discourse analysis, and new fields of engagement such as discourses on race, religion and money.

Part I. (Con)Textualizing Discourses: 1. Registers, Styles, Indexicality Robert Moore
2. Situating Discourse Analysis in Ethnographic and Sociopolitical Context Jennifer Roth-Gordon
3. Context and its Complications Jan Blommaert With Laura Smits and Noura Yacoubi
4. Re-Thinking Narrative: Tellers, Tales and Identities in Contemporary Worlds Anna De Fina and Alexandra Georgakopoulou
5. Historicity, Interdiscursivity and Intertextuality in Discourse Studies Branca Falabella Fabricio and Luiz Paulo Moita-Lopes
Part II. Perspectives and Modes of Analysis: 6. Sequence Organization: Understanding What Drives Talk Emily Hofstetter
7. Doing Micro-Analysis of Discourse: The Case of Ageing and Wellbeing Rachel Heinrichsmeier
8. Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies Clyde Ancarno
9. Cognitive Linguistic and Experimental Methods in Critical Discourse Studies Christopher Hart
10. Metaphor, Metonymy and Framing in Discourse Zsófia Demjén and Elena Semino
11. Poststructuralist Discourse Studies: From Structure to Practice Johannes Angermuller
Part III: Discourse Materialities and Embodiment: 12. Multimodality Sabine Tan, Kay O'Halloran and Peter Wignell
13. Sign Theory and the Materiality of Discourse Jack Sidnell
14. Discourse and theLinguistic Landscape Philip Seargeant and Korina Giaxoglou
15. Discourse, Emotions, and Embodiment Brigitta Busch
16. Posthumanism and its Implications for Discourse Studies Gavin Lamb and Christina Higgins
Part IV. Translocations and Intersections: 17. Transnationalism, Globalization, and Superdiversity Zane Goebel
18. Translanguaging and Momentarity in Social Interaction Tong King Lee and Li Wei
19. Intersectionality, Affect and Discourse Kristine Køhler Mortensen and Tommaso M. Milani
20. Expanding Academic Discourses: Diverse Englishes, Modalities, and Spatial Repertoires Brooke R. Schreiber, Mohammad Naseh Nasrollahi Shahri and Suresh Canagarajah
Part V. Ethics, Inequality and Inclusion: 21. Ethics and theStudy of Discourse Martyn Hammersley
22. Migrants, Citizenship and Language Rights Lionel Wee
23. Diversity and Inclusion in Education Yi-Ju Lai and Kendall A. King
24. Discourse and Racialization Virginia Zavala and Michele Back
25. Discourse and Narrative in Legal Settings: The Political Asylum Process Amy Shuman and Carol Bohmer
26. Discourse and Religion in Educational Practice Vally Lytra
Part VI. Discourses, Publics and Mediatization: 27. The Critical Analysis of Genre and Social Action Anders Björkvall
28. Rhetorics, Discourse and Populist Politics Markus Rheindorf
29. The Discourses of Money and the Economy Annabelle Mooney
30. Corporate Discourse Sylvia Jaworska
31. Mediatized Communication and Linguistic Reflexivity in Contemporary Public and Political Life Cedric Deschrijver
32. Discourse Analysis and Digital Surveillance Rodney H. Jones.

Subject Areas: Sociolinguistics [CFB], Linguistics [CF], Language [C]