An introduction to discourse analysis: theory and method
Date
1999
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Routledge
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The viewpoint on language in this book has evolved over a good many years. It
arose, initially, not out of any desire to contribute to discourse analysis as a method
of inquiry, but rather, out of my own attempts to understand how language works in
a fully integrated way as simultaneously a mental, social, cultural, institutional, and
political phenomenon. I first became interested in these matters when I was teaching
linguistics in the School of Language and Communication at Hampshire College in
Amherst, Massachusetts.