Key Sources

Abstract

This chapter, which comprises the whole of Part III of the book, offers a range of resources useful to discourse analysts and researchers. Key resources in terms of monographs, edited collections, handbooks, readers for key scholars, and relevant journals are provided with full bibliographic references and relevant websites where applicable. Details of principal discourse conferences and associations worldwide are also set out, including brief annotations for each. Guidance on locating key internet sites of relevance to discourse researchers is also provided. Other relevant resources covered in this chapter include books pertaining to doing research, and software packages for a range of different approaches to discourse research, including concordancing, text parsing and annotation, and data analysis software for both quantitative and qualitative analyses.