This book provides an introduction to the basic principles of discourse research, offering practical research strategies for doing discourse analyses in the social sciences. The book includes guidance on developing a research question, selecting data and analyzing it, and presenting the results. The author has extensive practical experience in the field of discourse research and shows, throughout, how the methods suggested are compatible with numerous research questions and problems in sociology, cultural, political and social studies and related disciplines.
The Current Relevance of Discourse Research
Preamble
Collective Orders of Knowledge and Discourses
Approaches in Discourse Research
The History of the Term 'Discourse'
Discourse Analysis
Discourse Linguistics and (Corpus-based)
Critical Discourse Analysis and Kritische Diskursanalyse
Culturalist Discourse Research
Discourse Theories
Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse
Further Disciplinary Developments
Summary
The Research Process
Concepts
Questions
General Foundations
Doing Discourse Research
Getting Started
The Exploration of the Field of Investigation
Selection of Data
Other Data Formats and Methods
The Detailed Analysis of Data
The Situational and Material Nature of a Statement
Formal and Linguistic-Rhetorical Structure
The Interpretative Analytics of Contents
From Detailed Analysis to Overall Results
From Utterances via Statements to Discourse and Beyond
Interpretation and Presentation of Results
Concluding Remarks
