num_pages: 228
description: The central concern of this book is the analysis of verbal interaction or discourse. This first six chapters report and evaluate major theoretical advances in the description of discourse. The final chapters demonstrate how the findings of discourse analysis can be used to investigate second-language teaching and first-language acquisition and to analyse literary texts.
language: English
title: An Introduction to Discourse Analysis
titlecomplete: An Introduction to Discourse Analysis (Applied Linguistics and Language Study)
genres: Linguistics
ratings_count: 42
series: Applied Linguistics and Language Study
publisher: Routledge