Approach This book introduces a new approach to discourse analysis. It argues that discourse analysts should look beyond fixed speech events and consider the development of discourses over time.

We discuss the benefits of using corpus linguistic analysis, a quantitative method for determining the "aboutness" of talk, in conjunction with discourse analysis in order to understand writing center ...

Out of this discussion, and taking on board the ideas of German 'radical constructivists' as well as discourse analysts Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, the article develops the analytical concept ...