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Discourse Analysis: Putting Our Worlds into Words
Susan Strauss and Parastou Feiz

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Welcome to the companion website for Discourse Analysis: Putting Our Worlds into Words. This website contains helpful resources for instructors and students using Susan Strauss and Parastou Feiz’s dynamic text in their course.

This introductory textbook presents a variety of approaches and perspectives that can be employed to analyze any sample of discourse. The perspectives come from multiple disciplines, including linguistics, sociolinguistics, and linguistic anthropology, all of which shed light on meaning and the interactional construction of meaning through language use. Students without prior experience in discourse analysis will appreciate and understand the micro–macro relationship of language use in everyday contexts, in professional and academic settings, in languages other than English, and in a wide variety of media outlets.

Each chapter is supported by examples of spoken and written discourse from various types of data sources, including conversations, commercials, university lectures, textbooks, print ads, and blogs, and concludes with hands-on opportunities for readers to actually do discourse analysis on their own.

With its accessible multidisciplinary approach and comprehensive data samples from a variety of sources, Discourse Analysis is the ideal core text for the discourse analysis course in applied linguistics, English, education, and communication programs.

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  • PowerPoint slides for instructors, organized by chapter, to aid in course preparation and in the classroom
  • Flashcards, also organized by chapter, help students test their knowledge of key terms and concepts
  • Links to resources cited and discussed in the text allow students to engage more directly with the material on their own