textbook suggestions

[Thomas Bloor]

As the recommended textbook discussion has now gone beyond the original
query, I'll add my bit.  I have been teaching discourse analysis and
linguistics for longer than I care to remember and I have never found a
book that meets my needs for a single key textbook (if such a thing were
desirable, which I doubt). 'Discourse analysis' is a pretty eclectic term
and the choice of textbooks must obviously be determined by the orientation
of the course in question.  I tend towards a Hallidayan perspective and I
like to focus on linguistic details of text, though not exclusively. I also
focus -though not exclusively- on written text.  Currently, most of my
students are masters students involved in English language teaching - many
teach ESP/EAP in universities around the world. They are mostly starting
discourse analysis from scratch.

One of several books I use, though it is primarily an introduction to
Systemic Functional Grammar, is one I co-authored. Books I have found
useful (apart from classics such as Halliday & Hasan's Cohesion in English;
Goffman's Forms of Talk, etc) include the following:

Bloor T & Bloor M 1995	The Functional Analysis of English: a Hallidayan
Approach
			(Arnold)

Eggins S & Slade D 1997 Analyzing Casual Conversation (Cassell)


collections (mainly from the Birmingham University school):
Coulthard M (ed) 1994 Advances in Written Text Analysis (Routledge)

Coulthard M (ed) 1992  Advances in Spoken Discourse Analysis (Routledge)


for English teachers (but it could be used by non-teachers too):
McCarthy M & Carter 1994 Language as Discourse: Perspectives for Language
Teaching (Longman)

for ESP/EAP teachers:
Swales J 1991 Genre Analysis (Cambridge University Press)

Bhatia V K 1993 Analyzing Genre: Language Use in Professional Settings
(Longman)

Halliday MAK & Martin JR 1993  Writing Science: Literacy and Discursive
Power (Falmer Press)


Tom


Thomas Bloor
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