Working with Written Discourse
- Deborah Cameron - University of Oxford, UK
- Ivan Panovic - Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- Professor Jaffer Sheyholislami, Carleton University
"Comprehensive and up-to-the-minute in its discussion of areas like multimodality and the new media, without overlooking ‘older’ media and more conventional writing. I will recommend it highly to students at all levels."
- Dr Mark Sebba, Lancaster University
Addressing the practicalities of research, and embracing the complexity and variety of written forms of language, this book:
- grounds readers in a broad range of concepts, debates and relevant methods
- focuses on both theoretical questions and the ‘how to’ of analysis
- is loaded with practical activities and advice on the design and execution of research
- highlights computer-mediated communication and new media discourse, from text messages and tweets to mobile phone novels and online encyclopedias
- draws on data from international and multilingual communities.
The perfect companion to Deborah Cameron's best-selling Working with Spoken Discourse, this book equips readers with practical and conceptual tools to ask questions about written discourse, and to analyse the huge variety of texts that make up our linguistic landscape. It is the essential guide for students of discourse analysis in linguistics, media and communication studies, and for social researchers across the social sciences.
Clear and accessible introduction. Full of useful examples and exercises. Popular with my students.
This text addresses quite lofty ambitions in that the author takes a complex subject and addresses its main components succinctly and with clarity. The fact that this deft trick is pulled off is testament to the depth of their knowledge and understanding of the subject matter.
For our purposes this text is intended to enlighten a group of non-specialist students in accessing a level of understanding which allows them to use elementary analysis of written discourse in their research assignments and it appears that they have understood the subject well enough, using this text in support of the taught componnent, to achieve the desired ends. Only their assignments due in two weeks time will gauge this accurately. In the menatime we will be suggesting that next years stage two students purchase a copy of the book and also asking our library to purchase copies for general use.
An ideal text for undergraduate researchers looking to get to grips with discourse analysis.
Students have found the book a bit difficult to follow.
This book provides instrumental knowledge in the use of discourse analysis methods, which are the main focus of one of the subjects I teach (Discoursive Practices).
This book is a useful complement to "Researching spoken discourse" published earlier. In an educational context where access to spoken data in the English language is limited, written texts provide a great data source for student projects. In such cases, the adopted book, particularly itsApproaches chapter, offer a good overview of suggestions of how to approach data, and the view is not only versatile but constructively critical. The texts provided to exemplify methods are always valuable to the teacher who may at times be short of appealing examples.
This book provides a clear overview of discourse analysis from a variety of perspectives. While opted for a collection of chapters and articles for my course on Theory of Discourse last year, I did request that the library order this book and I will likely use it in the future.
Clear and accessible guidance to discourse analysis. Useful methodological text for our level 5 module. will be ordering for library and adding to reading lists
An ideal text for undergraduate researchers looking to get to grips with discourse analysis.
Clear and accessible introduction. Full of useful examples and exercises. Popular with my students.
