Jaworski Adam and Coupland Nikolas. The Discourse Reader

Routledge, 2006. — 560 p. The Discourse Reader is an integrated and structured set of original writings, representing the interdisciplinary field of discourse studies, focusing principally on linguistic, interactional, textual, social, cultural and ideological issues. The book is planned for use as a beginners/intermediate degree level teaching text, either on its own or as a secondary source-book. The readings are organised to provide a graded introduction to discourse theory and practice.For this reason/ the book includes several different sorts of text:
-influential early papers which laid the ground for the concept of discourse and defined the main priorities for 'discourse analysis';
-discussions of key research methods and resources;
-reflexive commentaries by leading theorists, highlighting key differences between sub-traditions of discourse studies;
-papers by contemporary specialists showing what discourse analysis is able to achieve, applied to different social issues and social settings.