Furthermore, in this book, discourse analysis is treated as a

rigorous way in texts that are organised as a series of overviews of the

research topics such as narrative media discourse, gender and

discourse, and institutional discourse throughout the social sciences.

As seen in the book, the writers set out to answer many kinds of

questions about language and about culture and society. It is

performed by paying systematic attention to particular contexts and

particular sets of utterances. This will help alleviate a problem in

teaching discourse analysis that of ending up with the students who

are unable to perform analyses going much beyond paraphrasing.