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SAGE PUBLISHING Doing Discourse Research by Keller
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 ResearchPreambleCollective Orders of Knowledge and DiscoursesApproaches in Discourse ResearchThe History of the Term 'Discourse'Discourse AnalysisDiscourse Linguistics and (Corpus-based)Critical Discourse Analysis and Kritische DiskursanalyseCulturalist Discourse ResearchDiscourse TheoriesSociology of Knowledge Approach to DiscourseFurther Disciplinary DevelopmentsSummaryThe Research ProcessConceptsQuestionsGeneral FoundationsDoing Discourse ResearchGetting StartedThe Exploration of the Field of InvestigationSelection of DataOther Data Formats and MethodsThe Detailed Analysis of DataThe Situational and Material Nature of a StatementFormal and Linguistic-Rhetorical StructureThe Interpretative Analytics of ContentsFrom Detailed Analysis to Overall ResultsFrom Utterances via Statements to Discourse and BeyondInterpretation and Presentation of ResultsConcluding Remarks