Deborah Cameron & Ivan Panovic 
Working with Written Discourse [EPUB ebook] 

An outstanding introduction to discourse analysis of written language in an age that is more and more characterized by multilingual, digital, and generically hybrid texts. In an accessible style,  
Working with Written Discourse illustrates how these texts can be analyzed employing a wide variety of approaches that are critical, multidisciplinary, and productive.

– Professor Jaffer Sheyholislami, Carleton University



‘Comprehensive and up-to-the-minute in its discussion of areas like multimodality and the new media, without overlooking ‘older’ media and more conventional writing. I will recommend it highly to students at all levels.’

– Dr Mark Sebba
, Lancaster University



Addressing the practicalities of research, and embracing the complexity and variety of written forms of language, this book:

• grounds readers in a broad range of concepts, debates and relevant methods


• focuses on both theoretical questions and the ‘how to’ of analysis


• is loaded with practical activities and advice on the design and execution of research


• highlights computer-mediated communication and new media discourse, from text messages and tweets to mobile phone novels and online encyclopedias 


• draws on data from international and multilingual communities.

The perfect companion to Deborah Cameron′s best-selling Working with Spoken Discourse, this book equips readers with practical and conceptual tools to ask questions about written discourse, and to analyse the huge variety of texts that make up our linguistic landscape. It is the essential guide for students of discourse analysis in linguistics, media and communication studies, and for social researchers across the social sciences.

Table of Content

Introduction

Preliminaries

Discourse and Discourse Analysis

Speech and Writing: The Debate on Difference

Writing, Technologies and Media

Scripts and Spelling

Approaches

Approaches to Written Discourse: An Initial Orientation

Critical Discourse Analysis

Corpus-Based Discourse Analysis

Multimodal Discourse Analysis

Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis

Multilingual Discourse Analysis

Applications

Working with Written Discourse in Social Research

Designing Your Own Projects

About the author

Ivan Panovic received his doctorate from Oxford University, where he went on to spend two years as a postdoctoral research fellow in Arabic sociolinguistics. He is now Assistant Professor of sociolinguistics at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. His book Literacies in Contemporary Egypt will be published in 2014.