Discourse, of Course: An overview of research in discourse studies

Discourse, of Course comes after Jan Renkema’s Introduction to Discourse Studies (2004) for undergraduates. The new book is a collection of twenty short papers. It is a capita selecta course and meant for graduate programs. The aim of this book is threefold:

• to present material for advanced courses in discourse studies;
• to unfold a stimulating display of research projects to future PhD students;
• to give an overview of new developments after the 2004 Introduction to Discourse Studies.

This publication fulfills both the teacher's need for a state-of-the-art overview of the main topics in discourse, and the student's need to acquire standards for developing research plans in theses and dissertations. It gives a combination of approaches from very different schools in discourse studies, ranging from argumentation theory to genre theory, from the study of multimodal metaphors to cognitive approaches to coherence analysis. This book is not only meant to serve as a textbook, but also as a reference book for researchers who want an update for various main topics in the field.

 

A multiple invitation to discourse studies Jan Renkema
Part I. Discourse in communication
Doing discourse with possible worlds Andrea Rocci
Discourses "off course"? Anna Duszak
Part II. Discourse and other communication modes
Discourse across semiotic modes John A. Bateman
Schemes and tropes in Visual Communication: The case of object grouping in advertisements Alfons Maes and Joost Schilperoord
Part III. Discourse types
Text types and dynamism of genres Sungsoon Wang
Academic and professional written genres in disciplinary communication: Theoretical and empirical challenges Giovanni Parodi
Part IV. Discourse structures
Why investigate textual information hierarchy? Elisabeth Le
Implicit and explicit coherence relations Maite Taboada
Part V. Stylistics and rhetorics
Style and culture in quantitative discourse analysis Martin Kaltenbacher
Devices of probability and obligation in text types Xinzhang Yang
Analysis and evaluation of argumentative discourse Frans H. van Eemeren and Bart Garssen
Part VI. Discourse and cognition
Embodied cognition, discourse and dual coding theory: New directions Mark Sadoski
The cognition of discourse coherence Ted Sanders and Wilbert Spooren
A computational psycholinguistic algorithm to measure cohesion in discourse Max M. Louwerse and Patrich Jeuniaux
Part VII. Discourse and institution
Chinese questions and power relations in institutional dialogue Jinjun Wang
Towards a process view of preformulation in press releases Geert Jacobs and Tom Van Hout
Media discourse Kenneth C.C. Kong
Part VIII. Discourse and culture
Critical discourse analysis Theo van Leeuwen
Gendered discursive constructions of bank manager positions: Conflicting social identities Inger Lassen
The semiotics of racism: A critical discourse-historical analysis Ruth Wodak
Key to the assignments
References
Index