Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics

by Theo van Leeuwen

Book Overview

Adding a new introduction and two previously unpublished papers, Discourse and Practice: New Tools for Critical Discourse Analysis brings together van Leeuwen's methodological work on discourse analysis of the last 15 years. Discourse, van Leeuwen argues, is a resource for representation, a knowledge about some aspect of reality which can be drawn upon when that aspect of reality has to be represented, a framework for making sense of things. And they...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195323319
• ISBN13: 9780195323313
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.2" x 9.2"