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| Figure, Tables and Illustrations | |
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| Series Editor's Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| How do we Understand Texts? | |
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| A framework for understanding comprehension | |
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| The focus and structure of this book | |
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| Summary | |
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| Discourse and Discourse Analysis | |
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| Definitions of discourse | |
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| What is a text? | |
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| Intertextuality | |
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| The relation between language and the world: discourse and social constructionism | |
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| A working definition of discourse | |
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| Summary | |
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| Genre | |
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| Mental representations in text comprehension | |
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| Schemas | |
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| Genre expectations | |
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| Classifying and sorting genres | |
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| Genres: linguistic or social practices? | |
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| Discourse modes in the analysis of discourse | |
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| The relation of discourse modes to genre | |
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| Genre, style, register and jargon | |
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| A summary definition of genre, style and discourse mode | |
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| Summary | |
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| Discourse Modes | |
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| Patterning in discourse modes | |
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| Narrating | |
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| Interacting | |
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| Describing | |
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| Reporting | |
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| Instructing | |
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| Summary | |
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| Analysing Discourse | |
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| Discourse analysis as a research method | |
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| Approaches to discourse | |
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| A broad heuristic for analysing discourse | |
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| Spoken Genres: Conversations and Classrooms | |
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| Conversation | |
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| Classroom discourse | |
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| Approaches to analysis | |
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| Conversation versus classroom discourse | |
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| Summary | |
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| Spoken Genres: Legal Discourse, Jokes, Sports Commentary and Advertising | |
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| Courtroom discourse | |
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| Jokes | |
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| Discourse signals revisited | |
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| Sports commentary | |
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| Summary | |
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| Written Genres: News Reports, Personal Ads, Texting and Online Gaming | |
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| News Reports | |
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| Lonely hearts ads | |
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| Discourse and new technology | |
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| Text messaging | |
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| Computer gaming | |
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| Texting compared with online gaming interaction | |
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| Summary | |
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| Political Oratory and Intertextuality | |
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| The role of intertextuality | |
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| Political speeches and oratory | |
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| Summary | |
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| Doing Discourse Analysis | |
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| Question 1: Research question | |
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| Question 2: Research literature | |
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| Question 3: Data | |
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| Question 4: What - what is this text doing? | |
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| Question 5: How - how does this text do what it does? | |
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| Question 6: Why - why does this text do what it does? | |
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| Question 7: What else - how could it be done differently? | |
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| Question 8: Presentation and writing up | |
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| Endnote | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |