GER 392: TEXTUAL ANALYSIS FOR CULTURAL STUDIES:
MEDIA, INFORMATION, AND THE ARTS OF READING
Unique 37005: TTH 330 to 5p; EPS 4.102A
Instructor: Katherine Arens (k.arens@mail.utexas.edu)
Book List: Textual Analysis for Cultural Studies
•= buy; •• = pick one or the other (more linguistic or more sociological); others strongly
recommended; unmarked -- a great book, but expensive, so some pieces will be copied.
•Norman Fairclough. Analysing Discourse: Textual Analysis for Social Research. London and
New York: Routledge, 2003. [ISBN 0-415-25893-6] [NOT IN PCL]
---. Discourse and Social Change. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1992. [ISBN 0-7456-1218-0] [P 302
F35 1992 PCL]
•---. Language and Power. Second Edition. Harlow, England: Longman, 2001. [ISBN 0-58241483-0] [P 40 F35 2001 PCL]
James Paul Gee. An Introduction to Discourse Analysis: Theory and Method. London and New
York: Routledge, 1999. [ISBN 0-415-21186-7] [e-book through UT CAT]
••M. A. K. Halliday, Christian M. I. M. Matthiessen, Christian Matthiessen. An Introduction to
Functional Grammar. 3rd ed. Arnold Publishers, 2004. ISBN 0-340-55782-6] [P 147 H35
2004 PCL]
•Stefan Titscher, Michael Meyer, Ruth Wodak, and Eva Vetter. Methods of Text and Discourse
Analysis. Trans. Bryan Jenner. London, et al.: SAGE, 2000. ISBN 0-7619-6483-5] [P
99 M425 2000 PCL]
••Margaret Wetherell, Stephanie Taylor, and Simeon J. Yates. Discourse as Data: A Guide for
Analysis. London, et al.: SAGE, 2001. [ISBN 0-7619-7158-0] [P 302 D573 2001 PCL]
•Ruth Wodak and Michael Meyer, eds. Methods of Critical Discourse Analysis: Introducing
Qualitative Methods. London, et al.: SAGE, 2001. [ISBN 0-7619-6154-2] [P 302 M3946
2001 PCL]
Recommended
Has genesis texts for the field:
Margaret Wetherell, Stephanie Taylor, and Simeon J. Yates. Discourse Theory and Practice: A
Reader. London, et al.: SAGE, 2001. [ISBN 0-7619-7165-5] [NOT IN PCL]
Copies of excerpts will be passed out, but it's a great book:
Kurrt Mueller-Vollmer, ed. The Hermeneutics Reader. NY: Continuum, 1990. [ISBN 0-82640402-2] [BD 241 H374 1985 PCL]
Best overall reference book for purchase (introductory articles on all facets of discourse analysis,
critical and otherwise, with how-to emphasis):
Deborah Schiffrin, Deborah Tannen, and Heidi E. Hamilton, eds. The Handbook of Discourse
Analysis. Oxford, Malden (MA): Blackwell, 2001. [ISBN 0-631-20596-9] [P 302 H344
2001 PCL Stacks]
Best overall reference work:
Van Dijk, Teun A., ed. Handbook of Discourse Analysis. 4 vols. London, Orlando: Academic
Press, 1985. Four volumes: Disciplines of Discourse; Dimensions of Discourse;
Discourse and Dialogue; Discourse Analysis in Society [P 302 H343 1985 V.1-4 PCL]
Some decent recent case studies:
David Howarth, Aletta J. Norval, and Yannis Stavrakakis, eds. Discourse Theory and Political
Analysis: Identities, Hegemonies, and Social Change. Manchester: Manchester UP,
2000. [ISBN 0-7190-5664-0] [ P 302.77 D567 2000 PCL]
JOURNALS:
Discourse and Society
Discourse Studies