This book is about the social, political and cultural content of elementary and secondary textbooks in American education. It focuses on the nature of the disco

An exploration of how any language produced by man, spoken or written, is used to communicate for a purpose and within a context.

This book offers a new framework for analysing textbook discourse, bridging the gap between contemporary ethnographic approaches and multimodality for a context

This introductory textbook presents a variety of approaches and perspectives that can be employed to analyze any sample of discourse. The perspectives come from

Revised and updated, this third edition of Barbara Johnstone’s Discourse Analysis encourages students to think about discourse analysis as an open-ended set o