Christie (1992), in the previous year's volume of the Annual Review of Applied Linguistics,
reviewed literacy initiatives in Australia which drew on systemic functional linguistics …

In this book I have attempted to document the stage my work has reached since I first
became interested in discourse analysis in 1968. I was a first year student at the time, in …

Dystopian narrative is a product of the social ferment of the twentieth century. A hundred
years of war, famine, disease, state terror, genocide, ecocide, and the depletion of humanity …

Since its appearance nearly two centuries ago, crime fiction has gripped readers'
imaginations around the world. Detectives have varied enormously: from the nineteenth …

The romance novel has the strange distinction of being the most popular but least respected
of literary genres. While it remains consistently dominant in bookstores and on best-seller …

This book examines genres as instances of social processes, enacting a range of important
institutional practices, hence also shaping people's subjectivities. Genres represent …

Literacy remains a contentious and polarized educational, media and political issue. What
has emerged from the continuing debate is a recognition that literacy in education is allied …

What are the structures of discourse and what are the functions of these structures in the
communicative context? This volume explains how and why discourse is organized at …

This book provides an accessible and interdisciplinary introduction to current debates on
gender, exploring the major theorists whose work has produced and inspired feminist …

Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is best known for its work on language and semiosis in the
service of power. Its deconstruction tends to focus on ideologically driven discrimination …