Contents cross-referenced List of figures and tables Acknowledgements A Introduction: Key topics in the study of discourse analysis 1 What is discourse analysis? 2 Texts and texture 3 Texts and their social functions 4 Discourse and ideology 5 Spoken discourse 6 Strategic interaction 7 Context, culture and communication 8 Mediated discourse analysis 9 Multimodal discourse analysis 10 Corpus-assisted discourse analysis B Development: Approaches to discourse analysis 1 Three ways of looking at discourse 2 Cohesion, coherence and intertextuality 3 All the right moves 4 Constructing reality 5 The texture of talk 6 Negotiating relationships and activities 7 The SPEAKING model 8 Mediation 9 Modes, meaning and action 10 Procedures for corpus-assisted discourse analysis C Exploration: Analysing discourse 1 Doing discourse analysis: first steps 2 Analysing texture 3 Analysing genres 4 Competing Discourses 5 Analysing speech acts 6 Conversational strategies online 7 Analysing contexts 8 Doing mediated discourse analysis 9 Analysing multimodality 10 Analysing corpora D Extension: Research in discourse analysis 1 The little texts in our lives 2 Texture: Old and new 3 Online genres and discourse communities 4 Ideologies in discourse 5 Conversations in online 'dating' and 'grooming' 6 'Coaching' and 'bragging': Positioning and politeness in discourse 7 Ethnographic approaches to discourse analysis 8 Discourse and action 9 Identity, stereotypes, and multimodal discourse analysis 10 Corpus-assisted discourse analysis Further reading References Author index Glossarial index.