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Jan Renkema "Discourse, of Course: An overview of research in discourse studies"

A multiple invitation to discourse studies

Jan Renkema

1. How this book came to being

The study of discourse now has a fixed position in academic programs in communication

science all over the world. In many freshman and bachelor courses introductory

lectures are given, and in many master programs students spend a few months on

special topics related to discourse in communication.

In 2004, the revised edition of Introduction to Discourse Studies appeared, a result

of almost twenty-five years of academic and non-academic teaching about discourse.

It was a renewal of Renkema (1992), which has been reprinted and translated several

times over. The revised edition has found its place in many education programs.

This book is a kind of follow-up on that introduction, which was meant for undergraduate

programs. It is a collection of twenty short papers, a capita selecta course,

and is written for graduate programs. The selection of the twenty chapters was made

on the basis of insights gained in contacts with fellow researchers whom I met while I

was working as a guest professor at various universities in different parts of the world.

I invited colleagues who have influenced and stimulated me in my work to write an

invitation to theirs in their own area of discourse studies. This book, the result of that

invitation, is a critical overview of stimulating ideas from leading persons in the field.

The aim of this book is threefold:

a. presenting material for advanced courses in discourse studies;

b. unfolding a stimulating display of research projects to future PhD students;

c. giving an overview of new developments after the 2004 introduction.

This publication is motivated by the need of teachers to have a state-of-the-art overview

of the main topics in the field, and by the need of advanced students to acquire

standards for developing research plans, in theses or dissertations. It gives a combination

of approaches from very different schools in discourse studies, ranging from

argumentation theory to genre theory, from multimodal metaphors to cognitive approaches

to coherence analysis. This book not only serves as a textbook, but also as a

kind of reference book for researchers who want to have an update for various main

topics in the field.

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