Van Dijk Teun A. (Editor). Discourse as Structure and Process

SAGE, 1997. — xii, 356 pages. — (Discourse Studies: A Multidisciplinary Introduction). — ISBN: 0-8039-7844-8.This book offers a first introduction to discourse studies, a new cross discipline that comprises the theory and analvsis of text and talk in virtually all disciplines of the humanities and social sciences. For the main areas of discourse studies, the respective chapters feature literature reviews, explanations of theoretical frameworks and many concrete discourse
analyses.Besides providing a current state of the art, the chapters in this book have especially been written for newcomers to the field: students who take a special course in discourse analysis or choose this topic as part of their own discipline, as well as scholars from other disciplines who (finally) want to know what this study of discourse is all about. Esoteric jargon has been avoided in favor of a style of presentation that is accessible to all students and scholars in the humanities and social sciences.The Study of Discourse
The Story of Discourse Analysis
Discourse Semantics
Discourse and Grammar
Discourse styles
Rhetoric
Narrative
Argumentation
Genres and Registers of Discourse
Discourse Semiotics
Cognition
Social Cognition and Discourse