Discourse as Data uses a step-by-step approach to introduce the principal range of methods for discourse analysis, and offers the reader practical opportunities to try out analytic concepts on new data. The contributors come from across the social sciences - each an expert in a different core method in discourse analysis. They take the reader through: methods appropriate for analyzing different types of text; key analytic concepts; specimen analyses of data; Discourse as Data is organized around eight chapters, six of which are related to the domains covered in the Reader: Discourse Theory and Practice, by the same authors. The introduction and conclusion set up common methodological issues in discourse research relevant to all approaches (such as transcription and the application and the critical evaluation of discourse research). The text is a perfect companion to the simultaneously published Reader. Its broad coverage, combined with didactic, practical guidance makes this important reading for anyone wishing to learn more about discourse analysis. Discourse as Data is s course text on the Open University course (D843) Discourse Analysis.
Margaret Wetherell is Professor of Social Psychology at the Open University, UK and Director of the Economic and Social Research Council Programme on Identities and Social Action. Stephanie Taylor is a senior lecturer in Social Psychology at the Open University, UK. Her research investigates a complex gendered subject and contemporary identification, including identities of creativity and work. She has also written extensively on discourse analysis and qualitative research. Her books include What Is Discourse Analysis? (Bloomsbury, 2013), Contemporary Identities of Creativity and Creative Work, with Karen Littleton (Ashgate, 2012), and Narratives of Identity and Place (Routledge, 2010). She is a coeditor, with Susan Luckman, of the 2018 Palgrave Macmillan collection The New Normal of Working Lives: Critical Studies in Contemporary Work and Employment. She is originally from New Zealand and now lives in the UK.
Locating and Conducting Discourse Analytic Research - Stephanie Taylor Researching Psychic Practitioners - Robin Wooffitt Conversation Analysis Researching Internet Interaction - Simeon J Yates Sociolinguistics and Corpus Analysis The Construction of M.E. - Mary Horton-Salway The Discursive Action Model Analyisng Masculinty - Nigel Edley Interpreting Repertoires, Ideological Dilemmas and Subject Positions The Discourse of New Labour - Norman Fairclough Critical Discourse Analysis Unmarried Motherhood 1830-1990 - Jean Carabine A Genealogical Analysis Evaluating and Applying Discourse Analytic Research - Stephanie Taylor
`A highly effective introduction which gives readers a clear sense of how to analyze discourse data and then employ the analytic approaches in their own research' - David Silverman, Goldsmith College, University of London
