Discourse analysis has been increasingly used as a basic analytic tool of qualitative research. This research methods course focuses on the use of language in society at the level of multiple ...

Perspectives on Discourse Analysis: Theory and Practice provides the student/reader with the basic theoretical knowledge and the empirical tools of some of the most relevant approaches to the analysis ...

Studies of linguistic variation in communities ought to be able to capture variable patterns of discourse. But there are problems in quantitatively studying variable realisations of functional units, ...