The handbook of discourse analysis makes significant contributions to current research and serves as a comprehensive andauthoritative guide to the central issues in contemporary discourse analysis. Features comprehensive coverage of contemporary discourse analysis. Offers an overview of how different disciplines approach theanalysis of discourse. Provides analysis of a wide range of data, including politicalspeeches, everyday conversation, and literary texts. Includes a varied range of theoretical models, such asrelevance theory and systemic–functional linguistics, and methodology, including interpretive, statistical, and formal methods. Features comprehensive coverage of contemporary discourse analysis.