Beschreibung:
Discourse in English Language Education is designed to introduce students to the major concepts and issues in discourse analysis and its applications to language education, drawing on the key research from a range of approaches. This will be essential reading for upper undergraduates and postgraduates with interests in applied linguistics, TESOL and mother tongue language education.
1. Introduction 2. Systemic Functional Linguistics and Register 3. Cohesion 4. Thematic Development 5. Speech Acts 6. The Cooperative Principle and Politeness 7. Conversational Analysis 8. Genre Analysis 9. Corpus-based approaches 10. Critical discourse analysis