Discourse Studies Reader: Essential Excerpts

ISBN-13: 9781441154972 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 360 str.

Ken Hyland

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Since 2005, the Continuum Discourse series, under the
editorship of Professor Ken Hyland, has published some of the most cutting-edge
work in the field of discourse analysis.This edited collection offers a showcase of
the work produced by its authors and reads as fully-functional book in its own right.
The work of Paul Baker, Frances Christie and Greg Myers features, amongst others.With an introduction by Professor Hyland, the chapters are
organized thematically to provide a look a research methods, examine at the
various types of institutional discourses covered by the series, and finally, a
look to arguably the future of the field - electronic discourses in an
electronic medium, for example Twitter, SMS and Blogs.This is an essential purchase for those involved in
discourse analysis in any capacity.