Methods of Text and Discourse Analysis: In Search of Meaning / Edition 1

by Stefan Titscher, Michael Meyer, Ruth Wodak, Eva Vetter

Overview

Methods of Text and Discourse Analysis provides the most comprehensive overview currently available of linguistic and sociological approaches to text and discourse analysis.

Among the 10 linguistic and sociological models surveyed in this book some of the more important are Grounded Theory, Content Analysis, Conversation Analysis and Critical Discourse Analysis. The book presents each approach according to a standardised format, which allows for direct systematic comparisons. The fully annotated lists of sources provide readers with an additional means of evaluation of the competing analytical methods. Interdisciplinary and international in its aim, Methods of Text and Discourse Analysis suggests the benefits both linguists and sociologists will derive from a more intimate knowledge of each others' methods and procedures. By enabling readers to compare, contrast and apply a range of methods and approaches this book will be an essential resource for both students and researchers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761964834
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	09/22/2000
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.53(h) x (d)

About the Author

Michael Meyer is Professor for Business Administration at Vienna University of Economics and Business.

Ruth Wodak is Distinguished Professor of Discourse Studies at Lancaster University. Her research interests focus on discourse studies; identity politics; racism, antisemitism and other forms of discrimination; and on ethnographic methods of linguistic field work.

She was awarded the Wittgenstein Prize for Elite Researchers in 1996 and an Honorary Doctorate from University of Örebro in Sweden in 2010. She has held visiting professorships in University of Uppsala, Stanford University, University Minnesota, University of East Anglia, and Georgetown University (Washington, DC). She is a member of the British Academy of Social Sciences and a member of the Academia Europaea. In 2008, she was awarded the Kerstin Hesselgren Chair of the Swedish Parliament (at University Örebrö).

Ruth is co-editor of the SAGE journal Discourse & Society, and of the journals Critical Discourse Studies and Journal of Language and Politics. Recent book publications include: The discourse of politics in action: ‘Politics as Usual’ (2011), Critical Discourse Analysis (4 volumes, 2013), Migration, Identity and Belonging (with G. Delanty and P. Jones, 2011), The Discursive Construction of History: Remembering the German Wehrmacht’s War of Annihilation (with H. Heer, W. Manoschek, and A. Pollak, 2008), The Politics of Exclusion: Debating Migration in Austria (with M. Krzyzanowski, 2009), The SAGE Handbook of Sociolinguistics (with B. Johnstone and P. Kerswill, 2010), Analyzing Fascist Discourse: Fascism in Talk and Text (with J. E. Richardson, 2013), and Rightwing Populism in Europe: Politics and Discourse (with M. Khosravi Nik and B. Mral, 2013).

Table of Contents

PART ONE: TEXTS AND METHODS
On Social-Research Methods of Text Analysis
What Is a Text?
How to Obtain Material for Analysis
An Overview
Map of Methods and Theories
PART TWO: OVERVIEW OF METHODS OF TEXT ANALYSIS
Content Analysis
Grounded Theory
Ethnographic Methods
Two Ethnomethodologically Oriented Methods of Text Analysis
Membership Categorization Device Analysis and Conversation Analysis
Narrative Semiotics
SYMLOG as a Method of Text Analysis
Two Approaches to Critical Discourse Analysis
Functional Pragmatics
Distinction-Theory Text Analysis
Objective Hermeneutics
PART THREE: OVERVIEW AND COMPARISON
Bibliometric Survey
The Prominence of Methods of Text Analysis
Comparison of Methods of Text Analysis