Download or read book Doing Discourse Analysis written by Linda A. Wood and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2000-05-11 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing both the practical steps for doing discourse analysis and the theoretical justifications for those steps, this book shows students how the social world revolves around talk and text. The authors draw on conversation analysis, critical discourse analysis, pragmatics, and the discursive approach developed in social psychology. The book presents actual examples, covers data collection methods and strategies for data analysis, and addresses issues of reliability and validity.