Still one of the best papers on “doing discourse analysis”:
Antaki, C., Billig, M., Edwards, D., and Potter, J., 2003, “Discourse Analysis Means Doing Analysis: A Critique Of Six Analytic Shortcomings”, Discourse Analysis Online, 1.
Since the link does not generally work, pdf can be downloaded here. More on the authors and their disciplinary positions, perspectives and philosophies on the Loughborough University Discourse and Rhetoric Group site.
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