Hi Rachel,
despite its emphasis on oral language, I've used Wood
and Kroger's "doing discourse analysis" with good success.
Students appreciated the focus on method and process and we
were able to move easily from oral to written analysis.
you could also consider: Titscher, Meyer, Wodak and Vetter,
"Methods of text and discourse analysis" and Gee's
"an introduction to discourse analysis"
Janet Giltrow has an excellent article in JTWC,
Giltrow, J. (1998). Modernizing authority: Management studies and the
grammaticalization of controlling interests. Journal of Technical
Writing and Communication 28(3): 265-286.
and for business students, I've used,
Alvesson, M. and Karreman, D. (2000). Taking the linguistic turn in
organizational research. Journal of Applied Behavioral Science 36(2):
136-158.
which situates discourse studies within business and organizational
research.
good luck, could you please share other suggestions you get?
- brent
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Clarkson University
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On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 16:35, Rachel Nash wrote:
> Hi all:
>
> I'm sorry to have missed the last Inkshed conference in Ontario, but am
> looking forward to hosting duties here in Kamloops next year. In the
> meantime, I'm wondering if anyone might point me to interesting textbooks
> which I might use for a course in discourse analysis that I will be
> teaching for the first time next winter. It's an upper level course; I wish
> to have a focus on functional grammar, without completely intimidating the
> students (therefore, I will not be using Michael Halliday's Introduction to
> Functional Grammar, despite its core importance). I know some people have
> used Norman Fairclough's Language and Power with some success; I've also
> considered sections of Glenn Stillar's Analyzing Everyday Texts and Jay
> Lemke's Textual Politics. Any ideas?
>
> thanks for any and all thoughts on the matter,
>
> Rachel Nash
>
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