The Discourse Reader is the first comprehensive collection of important, original writings on discourse analysis. Designed as a structured source book for students from introductory undergraduate level upwards, the Reader is divided into clear sections covering the foundations of modern discourse analysis. It represents all the contemporary methods and traditions of discourse analysis, including pragmatics, conversation analysis, the ethnography of communication, narrative analysis and critical discourse analysis. Each section is introduced by the editors, and provides recommendations for further reading. The Discourse Reader is an indispensible introduction to the theoretical writings of: Foucault, Bourdieu, Bakhtin, Giddens, Goffman, Austin, Grice, Malinowski, Watzlawick, Gumperz, Sacks, Schegloff, Sperber and Wilson, Fairclough, Labov and others. It represents the best examples of discourse analysis, for example, in the work of Potter and Wetherall, Duranti, Ochs, Bell, Schiffrin, Sherzer, Brown and Levinson, Holmes, Bauman, Tannen and Wallat, Kress and van Leeuwen, Cameron, Mehan, van Dijk.