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The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis covers the major approaches to Discourse Analysis from Critical Discourse Analysis to Multimodal Discourse Analysis and their applications in key educational and institutional settings. The handbook is divided into six sections: Approaches to Discourse Analysis, Approaches to Spoken Discourse, Genres and Practices, Educational Applications, Institutional Applications, and Identity, Culture and Discourse. The chapters are written by a wide range of contributors from around the world, each a leading researcher in their respective field. All chapters have been closely edited by James Paul Gee and Michael Handford. With a focus on the application of Discourse Analysis to real-life problems, the contributors introduce the reader to a topic, and analyse authentic data. The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis is vital reading for linguistics students as well as students of communication and cultural studies, social psychology and anthropology. Read more... Content: Approaches to discourse analysis. -- Critical discourse analysis / Norman Fairclough -- Systemic functional linguistics / Mary J. Schleppegrell -- Multimodal discourse analysis / Gunther Kress -- Narrative analysis / Joanna Thornborrow -- Mediated discourse analysis / Suzie Wong Scollon and Ingrid de Saint-Georges -- Multimedia and discourse analysis / Jay L. Lemke -- Gender and discourse analysis / Jennifer Coates -- Discursive psychology and discourse analysis / Jonathan Potter -- Conversation analysis / Steven E. Clayman and Virginia Teas Gill -- Interactional sociolinguistics and discourse analysis / Jürgen Jaspers -- Discourse-oriented ethnography / Graham Smart -- Discourse analysis and linguistic anthropology / Justin B. Richland -- Corpus-based discourse analysis / Lynne Flowerdew -- Register and genre. -- Register and discourse analysis / Douglas Biber -- Genre in the Sydney school / David Rose -- Genre as social action / Charles Bazerman -- Professional written genres / Vijay Bhatia -- Spoken professional genres / Almut Koester and Michael Handford -- Developments in spoken discourse. -- Prosody in discourse / Winnie Cheng and Phoenix Lam -- Lexis in spoken discourse / Paula Buttery and Michael McCarthy -- Emergent grammar / Paul J. Hopper -- Creativity in speech / Sarah Atkins and Ronald Carter -- Spoken narrative / Mary M. Juzwik -- Metaphor in spoken discourse / Lynne Cameron -- From thoughts to sounds / Wallace Chafe -- Educational applications. -- Discourse and "the new literacy studies" / James Paul Gee -- Ethnography and classroom discourse / Amy B.M. Tsui -- Education and bilingualism / Karen Thompson and Kenji Hakuta -- English for academic purposes and discourse analysis / Ken Hyland -- Institutional applications. -- Advertising and discourse analysis / Elsa Simões and Lucas Freitas -- Media and discourse analysis / Anne O'Keeffe -- Asian business discourse(s) / Hiromasa Tanaka and Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini -- Discourse and healthcare / Kevin Harvey and Svenja Adolphs -- Discourses in the language of the law / Edward Finegan -- Ethnicity and humour in the workplace / Janet Holmes and Julia de Bres -- Discourse, gender and professional communication / Louise Mullany -- Identity, culture and discourse. -- Politics as usual : investigating political discourse in action / Ruth Wodak -- Discourse geography / Yueguo Gu -- Queer linguistics, sexuality, and discourse analysis / William L. Leap -- Intercultural communication / Helen Spencer-Oatey, Hale Işik-Güler and Stefanie Stadler -- Discourse and knowledge / Teun A. van Dijk -- Narrative, cognition, and rationality / David R. Olson -- Discourse and power / Adrian Blackledge -- Literary discourse / Peter K.W. Tan -- A multicultural approach to discourse studies / Shi-xu -- World Englishes and/or English as a lingua franca / Andy Kirkpatrick and James McLellan. Abstract: The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis covers the major approaches to Discourse Analysis from Critical Discourse Analysis to Multimodal Discourse Analysis and their applications in key educational and institutional settings. The handbook is divided into six sections: Approaches to Discourse Analysis, Approaches to Spoken Discourse, Genres and Practices, Educational Applications, Institutional Applications, and Identity, Culture and Discourse. The chapters are written by a wide range of contributors from around the world, each a leading researcher in their respective field. All chapters have been closely edited by James Paul Gee and Michael Handford. With a focus on the application of Discourse Analysis to real-life problems, the contributors introduce the reader to a topic, and analyse authentic data. The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis is vital reading for linguistics students as well as students of communication and cultural studies, social psychology and anthropology