Gee James Paul. How to do Discourse Analysis: A Toolkit

Routledge, 2014. — 216 p.How to do Discourse Analysis: A Toolkit is the essential new book from James Paul Gee, and the companion to his bestselling An Introduction to Discourse Analysis: Theory and Method. Discourse analysis is widely used in a range of academic subjects, all concerned with how humans make meaning and communicate within and across different social and cultural groups. Using a practical how-to approach, Gee provides the tools necessary to work with discourse analysis, with engaging step-by-step tasks featured throughout the book. Each tool is clearly explained, along with guidance on how to use it, and authentic data is provided for readers to practice using the tools. Readers from all fields will gain both a practical and theoretical background in how to do discourse analysis and knowledge of discourse analysis as a distinctive research methodology. How to do Discourse Analysis: A Toolkit is the ideal preparation for future learning in discourse analysis and applied linguistics, meant for those interested in learning discourse analysis by doing it. The inter disciplinary approach means that it is suitable for students across a range of subjects, including applied linguistics, anthropology, and communication studies.
James Paul Gee is the Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies at Arizona State University. His many titles include An Introduction to Discourse Analysis, Sociolinguistics and Literacies and Situated Language and Learning, all published by Routledge.Language and Context
Language and Language Acquisition
Context
Grammar Interlude #1: Deixis
Two Tools: The Fill In Tool and the Making Strange Tool
Working with the Filling In Tool
Grammar Interlude #2: Subjects and Predicates
Working with the Making Strange Tool
Grammar Interlude #3: Intonation
The Frame Problem
The Frame Problem Tool
Working with the Frame Problem Tool
Saying, Doing, and Designing
The Doing and Not Just Saying Tool
Working with the Doing and Not Just Saying Tool
Using Grammar to Build Structures and Meaning
Grammar Interlude #4: Vocabulary
The Why This Way and Not That Way Tool
Grammar Interlude #5: Integrating Information
Working with the Why This Way and Not That Way Tool
Grammar Interlude #6: Topics and Themes
Why We Build and Design with Grammar
Using Language to Build Things in the World
Grammar Interlude #7: Stanzas
Building Things in the World
The Context is Reflexive Tool
Working with the Context is Reflexive Tool
Building Tasks and Building Tools
The Significance Building Tool
Working with the Significance Building Tool
The Activities Building Tool
Working with the Activities Building Tool
The Identities Building Tool
Working with the Identities Building Tool
The Relationships Building Tool
Working with the Relationships Building Tool
The Politics Building Tool
Working with the Politics Building Tool
The Connections Building Tool
Grammar Interlude #8: Cohesion
Working with the Connections Building Tool
The Sign Systems and Knowledge Building Tool
Working with the Sign Systems and Knowledge Building Tool
Grammar Interlude #10: Topic Flow or Topic Chaining
Theoretical Tools
Five Theoretical Tools
The Situated Meaning Tool
Working with the Situated Meaning Tool
The Social Languages Tool
Working with the Social Language Tool
The Intertextuality Tool
Working with the Intertextuality Tool
The Figured Worlds Tool
Working with the Figured Worlds Tool
The Big D Discourse Tool
Working with the Big D Discourse ToolAppendices
Discourse Analysis for Images and Multimodal Texts
List of Tools