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Reiner Keller , Doing discourse research: An introduction for social scientists . Trans. by Bryan Jenner . Los Angeles : SAGE , 2013. Pp. 176. Hb. £24.99.
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Doing discourse research: An introduction for social scientists gives an introduction to the basic principles and approaches of discourse research and provides practical research strategies and frameworks for doing discourse analysis in the social sciences. This book also covers the general research process in social sciences, that is, developing a research question, selecting data, analyzing it, and presenting the results.
The book consists of seven chapters. The first six chapters explain the methodological procedure of investigating discourse from a sociology of knowledge perspective. Chapter 1 describes the current relevance of discourse research. Chapter 2 introduces various approaches in discourse research,...