Methods of Text and Discourse Analysis

'This volume is the most comprehensive overview to date of sociologically orientated approaches to text and discourse analysis and is worth reading even for those who are interested only in purely linguistiv approaches to text and discourse. Its main merit, I think, is that it intorduces approaches which up to now have hardley been admitted into the universe of scientific discourse' - Discourse Studies



Methods of Text and Discourse Analysis provides the most comprehensive overview currently available of linguistic and sociological approaches to text and discourse analysis.

Among the 10 linguistic and sociological models surveyed in this book some of the more important are Grounded Theory, Content Analysis, Conversation Analysis and Critical Discourse Analysis. The book presents each approach according to a standardised format, which allows for direct systematic comparisons. The fully annotated lists of sources provide readers with an additional means of evaluation of the competing analytical methods. Interdisciplinary and international in its aims, Methods of Text and Discourse Analysis suggests the benefits both linguists and sociologists will derive from a more intimate knowledge of each others' methods and procedures.

PART ONE: TEXTS AND METHODS
On Social-Research Methods of Text Analysis
What Is a Text?
How to Obtain Material for Analysis
An Overview
Map of Methods and Theories
PART TWO: OVERVIEW OF METHODS OF TEXT ANALYSIS
Content Analysis
Grounded Theory
Ethnographic Methods
Two Ethnomethodologically Oriented Methods of Text Analysis
Membership Categorization Device Analysis and Conversation Analysis
Narrative Semiotics
SYMLOG as a Method of Text Analysis
Two Approaches to Critical Discourse Analysis
Functional Pragmatics
Distinction-Theory Text Analysis
Objective Hermeneutics
PART THREE: OVERVIEW AND COMPARISON
Bibliometric Survey
The Prominence of Methods of Text Analysis
Comparison of Methods of Text Analysis