Working with Discourse: Meaning Beyond the Clause [Hardcover]

This second edition of the best-selling textbook Working with Discourse has been revised and updated throughout. The book builds an accessible set of analytic tools that can be used to explore how speakers and writers construe meaning through discourse. These techniques are introduced in clear steps, through analyses of spoken, written and visual texts that focus on truth and reconciliation in post-apartheid South Africa. The new edition includes a chapter on Negotiation, clear definitions of key terms, chapter summaries and revised suggestions for further reading.

Accessibly written and presupposing no prior knowledge of discourse or functional linguistics, this is the ideal textbook for students encountering discourse analysis for the first time at advanced undergraduate or postgraduate level.

Chapter 1 Interpreting social discourse

1.0 An invitation

1.1 A framework for discussion

1.2 Genre

1.3 Language, power and ideology

1.4 How this book is organised

1.5 How to use this book

Chapter 2 APPRAISAL - negotiating attitudes

2.0 Negotiating attitudes

2.1 Kinds of attitudes

2.2 Amplifying attitudes

2.3 Sources of attitudes

2.4 Prosody and genre

2.5 More detail on kinds of attitude

Chapter 3 IDEATION - representing experience

3.0 Representing experience

3.1 Sequences of meanings

3.2 Doing - focusing on activities

3.3 Being - focusing on entities

3.4 Classifying and describing within elements

3.5 Ways of participating

3.6 Building up a picture - taxonomic relations

3.7 Types of taxonomic relations

3.8 Re-construing experience - ideational metaphor

Chapter 4 conjunctiolƒs