Dear Sue Hamzah,

Discursive events as instances of sociocultural practice combining both micro and macro levels of interpretation have long been used in discourse analysis research to tap the symbiotic relationship between language, power and ideology in general and power abuse, domination and sociopolitical inequality in particular. Some of the well-known academics in this area are VanDijik, Wodak, Fairclough, Krzyanowski, Chilton, Graham, Van Leeuwen, and Kress. The models proposed by these discourse analysts have been explicated in their text books and have been used by concerned practitioners throughout the world.  I would like to refer you to the following links, which I hope you will find useful.

Best regards,

R. Biria

https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/.../analysis...inaugural-speech/.../story.html

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/...inaugural-speech-analysis/513956...

https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:427453/FULLTEXT03

https://www.billboard.com/.../inauguration/.../trump-inauguration-obama-bush-inauguration.

Dear Reza Biria,

Thank you for your immediate reply. It is certainly an interesting area of study, and I wish you all the best.

Regards,

Suzana Hamzah

Dear Sue,

As a French speaking person, I would highly recommend Dominique Maingueneau's publications (some of them are written in English)  on discourse genres analysis. Please, take a look at these two links below so that you may learn something about The French School of Discourse Analysis. The third link refers to Patrick Charaudeau, another discourse analyst whose approach has a more communicative slant. Enjoy!

http://dominique.maingueneau.pagesperso-orange.fr/pdf/DS-anglais-academic-genre.pdf

http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/254/559

http://www.patrick-charaudeau.com/A-communicative-conception-of.html

Dr Dominika Topa-Bryniarska

Thank you for sharing your experience in this field which would certainly expand my horizon. The suggested reading is most helpful.

Sincerely,

Sue Hamzah

@Dominika Topa-Bryniarska

Dear Ms. Hamzah,

I think you've already got very good literature on discourse analysis already from some professors above. Here are some additions:

For beginners, I find this article very helpful:

http://www.politicseastasia.com/studying/how-to-do-a-discourse-analysis/

And if you wish to try critical discourse analysis, in addition to those original works by Professor Norman Fairclough, and Professor Teun A. van Dijk, I also follow those works by Professor Ruth Wodak. The following is her page on RG--there are tons of her discourse analysis works to read.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ruth_Wodak

Hope this helps.

Sincerely,

Cameen

Dear Dr Cameen Kettanun,

Thank you for the links that you shared here. I truly appreciate all leads to understand Discourse Analysis. It seems like an ocean without boundary to me, and I have just seen the swimming pool.

Sincerely

Sue Hamzah

I will gladly say Stuart Hall and Foucault. With these two, I daresay you cannot go wrong with critical discourse analysis. You can find their work readily available on the web and in university repositories.