Discourse as Data: A Guide for Analysis

by Margaret Wetherell (Editor), Stephanie J. A. Taylor (Editor), Simeon J Yates (Editor)

Overview

This workbook will be invaluable for students across the social sciences who need to learn how to analyze discourse. Using a step-by-step approach, students are introduced to the principal range of methods for analyzing different types of text, taken through key analytic concepts, offered specimen analyses and given the opportunity to try out analytic concepts on new data.

Discourse as Data is organized around eight chapters, six of which are related to the domains covered in the Reader, and top and tailed by two chapters which set up common methodological issues in discourse research relevant to all approaches (such as transcription and the application and the critical evaluation of discourse research).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761971580
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	05/25/2001
Series:	Published in association with The Open University
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	344
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

Margaret Wetherell is Professor of Social Psychology at the Open University, UK and Director of the Economic and Social Research Council Programme on Identities and Social Action.

Stephanie Taylor is a senior lecturer in Social Psychology at the Open University, UK. Her research investigates a complex gendered subject and contemporary identification, including identities of creativity and work. She has also written extensively on discourse analysis and qualitative research. Her books include What Is Discourse Analysis? (Bloomsbury, 2013), Contemporary Identities of Creativity and Creative Work, with Karen Littleton (Ashgate, 2012), and Narratives of Identity and Place (Routledge, 2010). She is a coeditor, with Susan Luckman, of the 2018 Palgrave Macmillan collection The New Normal of Working Lives: Critical Studies in Contemporary Work and Employment. She is originally from New Zealand and now lives in the UK.

Table of Contents

Locating and Conducting Discourse Analytic Research - Stephanie Taylor
Researching Psychic Practitioners - Robin Wooffitt
Conversation Analysis
Researching Internet Interaction - Simeon J Yates
Sociolinguistics and Corpus Analysis
The Construction of M.E. - Mary Horton-Salway
The Discursive Action Model
Analyisng Masculinty - Nigel Edley
Interpreting Repertoires, Ideological Dilemmas and Subject Positions
The Discourse of New Labour - Norman Fairclough
Critical Discourse Analysis
Unmarried Motherhood 1830-1990 - Jean Carabine
A Genealogical Analysis
Evaluating and Applying Discourse Analytic Research - Stephanie Taylor

Editorial Reviews

‘A highly effective introduction which gives readers a clear sense of how to analyze discourse data and then employ the analytic approaches in their own research' - David Silverman, Goldsmith College, University of London

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