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Chapter 10 Doing discourse analysis

Cameron, D. (2001), Working with Spoken Discourse. London: Sage. Chapter 12, Designing
your research project.
This chapter of Cameron’s book discusses the planning of a discourse analysis project from
an initial idea to the final stage of writing up the project. Different kinds of studies are sug-
gested, with examples from Cameron’s students’ work.

Hartley, J. (2008), Academic Writing and Publishing: A Practical Handbook. London:

Routledge
This book is an excellent guide to writing and publishing research. There are chapters on
each of the sections of a research article as well as chapters on choosing where to publish and
the peer review process. Each chapter is short and succinct, and very clearly written.

Heigham, J. and Croker, R. A. (eds) (2009), Qualitative Research in Applied Linguistics.

Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
Heigham and Croker’s book contains many chapters that are relevant to carrying out dis-
course studies. These include chapters on case studies, ethnographies, mixed methods, eth-
ics and writing up research.

Hughes, R. (2002), Teaching and Researching Speaking. Harlow, UK: Longman. Section III,
Researching speaking, Section IV, References and further information.
Hughes’s book discusses issues in researching spoken discourse. It gives examples of spoken
discourse projects, discusses new directions in researching spoken discourse as well as gives
ideas for spoken discourse projects. The book concludes with a chapter on resources for
investigating spoken discourse.

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Hyland, K. (2002), Teaching and Researching Writing. Harlow, UK: Longman. Section III,
Researching writing, Section IV, References and resources.
This section of Hyland’s book discusses issues and practices in the researching of written
texts. It describes a number of sample studies as examples of different kinds of research and
research methods. The book includes a list of key sources for reading further on researching
written discourse.

Johnstone, B. (2000), Qualitative Methods in Sociolinguistics. New York: Oxford University

Press. Chapter 9, Writing.
Chapter 9 of Johnstone’s book provides very clear advice on writing up research. While the
focus of this chapter is sociolinguistic research, there is much in the chapter that applies to
discourse projects more broadly.

Litosseliti, L. (ed.) (2010), Research Methods in Linguistics. London: Continuum.

Litosseliti’s book includes chapters on quantitative and qualitative methods, corpus-based
studies, the use of interviews and focus groups and multimodal analysis. Each chapter
reviews basic concepts in the particular area and gives examples of published studies to
illustrate the methodology being discussed.

Paltridge, B. and Phakiti, A. (eds) (2010), Companion to Research Methods in Applied

Linguistics. London: Continuum
This book contains chapters on research methods and approaches such as case studies, eth-
nographies and critical research as well as provides guidance on how to analyse quantitative
and qualitative data. In the second half of the book there are chapters on researching areas
such as speaking, writing, pragmatics, discourse, language and gender and language and
identity.

Paltridge, B. and Wang, W. (2010), ‘Researching discourse’ in B. Paltridge and A. Phakiti.

(eds), Continuum Companion to Research Methods in Applied Linguistics. London:
Continuum, pp. 256–73.
This chapter presents an overview of key approaches and areas of influence in discourse
analysis. A sample study of newspaper commentaries in Chinese and English on the events
of September 11 is provided. The study examines not only discourse features of the texts but
also considers reasons for why the texts have been written as they have.

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Roever, C. (2010), ‘Researching pragmatics’, in B. Paltridge and A. Phakiti (eds), Companion

to Research Methods in Applied Linguistics. London: Continuum, pp. 240–54.
In this chapter Roever outlines key issues in pragmatics research and typical stages in car-
rying out this kind of research. He then provides a sample study which illustrates the points
he raises in the chapter.

Wray, A. and Bloomer, A. (2006), Projects in Linguistics: A Practical Guide to Researching

Language (Second edition). London: Hodder Arnold.
This book provides advice on how to choose a research topic, how to collect data, how to ana-
lyse data and how to write up the results. Many ideas are given for possible research projects
and lists of key references are provided for following up on each of the topics discussed.

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