Introducing Practical Discourse Analysis

Christopher J. Jenks is Professor and Chair of Intercultural Communication at Utrecht University. He has also worked in the United States, the United Kingdom, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Denmark, specialising in the way spoken and written discourse performs a range of communication actions and indexes a number of social phenomena. He is author and editor of over ten books and numerous journals, including Researching Classroom Discourse: A Student Guide (Routledge, 2020) and New Frontiers in Language and Technology (Cambridge University Press, 2023).

• 1. What is discourse?; 2. What is an analysis?; 3. What are the perspectives and levels of an analysis?; 4. What is the role of context in an analysis?; 5. What is the role of the researcher in an analysis?; 6. What is the role of theory in an analysis?; 7. A model for doing discourse analysis; References; Index.

'This is the best guide ever to the bewildering and powerful field of discourse studies. Focusing on the practical, Jenks masterfully takes the reader through the essential steps of analyzing spoken, written, visual, digital and multimodal discourses. Follow the advice in this book; you will be able to use Discourse Analysis meaningfully for any discipline you are working in.' Li Wei, University College London