Includes bibliographical references & indexes

Vol. 1: Preface -- 1. The study discourse / Teun a. van Dijk -- 2. The story of discourse analysis / Robert de Beaugrande -- 3. Discourse semantics / Russell S. Tomlin, Linda Forrest, ming Ming Pu and Myung Hee Kim -- 4. Discourse and Grammar / Susanna Cumming and Tsuyoshi Ono -- 5. Discourse styles / Barbara Sandig and Margret Selting -- 6. Rhetoric / Ann M. Gill and Karen Whedbee -- 7. Narrative / Elinor Ochs -- 8. Argumentation / Frans H. van Eemeren, Rob Grootendorst, Sally Jackson and Scott Jacobs -- 9. Genres and registers of discourse / Suzanne Eggins and J.R. Martin -- 10. Discourse Semiotics / Gunther Kress, Regina Leite-Garcia and Theo van Leeuwen -- 11. Cognition / Arthur C. Greasser, Morton A. Gernsbacker and Susan R. Goldman -- 12. Social cognition and discourse / Susan Condor and Charles Antaki Vol. 2: Preface -- 1. Discourse as interaction in society / Teun A. van Dijk -- 2. Discourse Pragmatics / Shoshana Blum-Kulka -- 3. Conversation analysis: an approach to the study of social action as sense making practices / Anita Pomerantz and B.J. Fehr -- 4. Institutional dialogue / Paul Drew and Marja-Leena Sorjonen -- 5. Gender in discourse / Candace West, Michelle M. Lazar and Cheris Kramarae -- 6. Discourse, Ethnicity, Culture and Racism / Teun A. van Dijk, Stella Ting-Toomey, Geneva Smitherman and Denise Troutman -- 7. Organizational discourse / Dennis K. Mumby and Robin P. Clair -- 8. Discourse and politics / Paul Chilton and Christina Schaffner -- 9. Discourse and culture / Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka -- 10. Critical discourse analysis / Norman Fairclough and Ruth Wodak -- 11. Applied discourse analysis / Britt-Louise Gunnarsson