Understanding Discourse Analysis provides students with an accessible and well-illustrated introduction to discourse analysis, explaining the main terminology and frameworks and presenting key findings of discourse studies.

Bernadette Vine is Senior Researcher and Corpus Manager for the Language in the Workplace Project, based at the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (www.wgtn.ac.nz/lwp). Bernadette's research interests include workplace communication, leadership and New Zealand English.