Continuum Discourse Series

Series Editor: Professor Ken Hyland, Institute of Education, University

of London
Discourse is one of the most significant concepts of contemporary
thinking in the humanities and social sciences as it concerns the ways
language mediates and shapes our interactions with each other and
with the social, political and cultural formations of our society. The
Continuum Discourse Series aims to capture the fast-developing
interest in discourse to provide students, new and experienced tea
chers and researchers in applied linguistics, ELT and English language
with an essential bookshelf. Each book deals with a core topic in
discourse studies to give an in-depth, structured and readable intro
duction to an aspect of the way language in used in real life.
Other titles in the series (forthcoming):
M etadiscourse: Exploring Interaction in Writing
Ken Hyland
Using Corpora in D iscourse Analysis
Paul Baker
Spoken D iscourse: An Introduction
Helen de Silva Joyce and Diana Slade
H istorical Discourse: The Language o f Tim e, Cause and Evaluation
Caroline Coffin
M edia Discourse
Joanna Thornborrow
P rofessional Discourse
Britt-Louise Gunnarsson
An Introduction to Critical D iscourse A nalysis
Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard and Malcolm Coulthard