Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- 1. The Study of 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, Robe 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. Graesser, Morton A. Gernsbacher and Susan R. Goldman -- 12. Social Cognition and Discourse / Susan Condor and Charles Antaki

"What is discourse, and how has the new interdisciplinary field of discourse studies developed? What are the linguistic and other structures of discourse at various levels of analysis? How do people - and their minds - go about producing, understanding and remembering text or talk? How are these mental processes interactionally shaped? Covering a great variety of genres, both written and spoken, Discourse as Structure and Process explains how discourse is organized, how discursive form and meaning are related and what the functions are of style and rhetoric in the communicative context." (Book Cover)