Discourse Studies is the largest, most complete, most diverse and only multidisciplinary introduction to the field. A combined Second Edition of two seminal texts in the field (the 1997 titles Discourse as Social Interaction and Discourse as Structure and Process) this essential handbook: * is fully updated from start to finish to cover contemporary debates and research literature * covers everything from grammar, narrative, argumentation, cognition and pragmatics to social, political and critical approaches. * adds two wholly new chapters on ideology and identity * puts the student at the centre, offering brand new features such as worked examples, sample analyses and recommended further reading Written and edited by world-class scholars in their fields, it is the essential, one-stop companion for any student of discourse analysis and discourse studies.