Brian Paltridge is Professor of TESOL at the University of Sydney, Australia. He has served as editor for the journals English for Specific Purposes and TESOL Quarterly.Matthew T. Prior is Associate Professor of English (Applied Linguistics, Linguistics, and TESOL) at Arizona State University, USA. He has edited several volumes and journal special issues. Most recently, he served as associate editor of Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, which he helped launch.

"The volume by Brian Paltridge and Matthew T. Prior offers to the field contemporary perspectives on the theoretical and methodological power of discourse analytic approaches in furthering understandings of second language learning, teaching, and use in a wide range of contexts. Novice and seasoned researchers alike will find the chapters eminently useful."Joan Kelly Hall, Professor Emerita of Applied Linguistics, The Pennsylvania State University, USA

• List of figuresList of tablesList of contributors1 IntroductionBrian Paltridge and Matthew T. PriorPart I: Approaches and perspectives2 Conversation analysis and second language researchAtsushi Hasegawa3 Multimodal discourse analysis and second language researchChristoph Hafner4 Narrative inquiry and second language researchDoris Warriner and Anne Pomerantz5 Disciplinary discourses and second language literacies: A systemic functional linguistic perspectiveNicole Siffrinn and Meg Gebhard6 Genre, discourse, and second language researchChristine M. Tardy and Jeroen Gevers7 Grammatical complexity, discourse, and second language researchGe Lan8 Critical perspectives on discourse and second language researchQinghua Chen, Yanmei Zheng, and Angel M. Y. Lin9 A discursive psychological approach for second language acquisition researchMatthew T. Prior10 Sociocultural theory and L2 discourse: From descriptive to interventionist research in second language acquisitionAmy Snyder Ohta11 Sociocognitive perspectives on second language acquisition, teaching, and useDwight Atkinson, Anamaría Sagre Barboza, and Elif Burhan-Horasanlı12 Complex dynamic systems theory, interactional discourse, and second language researchAki Siegel and Paul Seedhouse13 Corpus approaches to discourse and second language researchSheena Gardner14 Ethnographic perspectives on discourse and second language researchHanako Okada15 Sociolinguistic perspectives on discourse and second language researchCorinne A. Seals and Honiara Salanoa16 Language socialization, discourse, and second language researchPatricia A. Duff and Masaru YamamotoPart II: Types of discourse17 Spoken discourse and second language researchMidori Ishida18 Written discourse and second language researchElena Cotos and Kimberly Becker19 Disciplinary discourses and second language researchBethany Gray and Chris Nuttall20 Metadiscourse and second language researchVictor Ho21 Classroom discourse and second language acquisitionChristopher Jenks and Olcay Sert22 Multilingual discourse and second language researchTarja Nikula and Anne Pitkänen-HuhtaPart III: Areas of use23 Technology-mediated discourse and second language researchVincenza Tudini and Anthony J. Liddicoat24 Intercultural pragmatics, discourse, and second language researchIstvan Kecskes25 Identity, discourse, and second language researchElizabeth Miller26 Gender, sexuality, discourse, and second language acquisition researchSusan Ehrlich and Tommaso Milani27 Discourse, competence, and second language acquisition researchDaisuke KimuraIndex

Brian Paltridge is Professor of TESOL at the University of Sydney, Australia. He has served as editor for the journals English for Specific Purposes and TESOL Quarterly.Matthew T. Prior is Associate Professor of English (Applied Linguistics, Linguistics, and TESOL) at Arizona State University, USA. He has edited several volumes and journal special issues. Most recently, he served as associate editor of Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, which he helped launch.

"The volume by Brian Paltridge and Matthew T. Prior offers to the field contemporary perspectives on the theoretical and methodological power of discourse analytic approaches in furthering understandings of second language learning, teaching, and use in a wide range of contexts. Novice and seasoned researchers alike will find the chapters eminently useful."Joan Kelly Hall, Professor Emerita of Applied Linguistics, The Pennsylvania State University, USA

• List of figuresList of tablesList of contributors1 IntroductionBrian Paltridge and Matthew T. PriorPart I: Approaches and perspectives2 Conversation analysis and second language researchAtsushi Hasegawa3 Multimodal discourse analysis and second language researchChristoph Hafner4 Narrative inquiry and second language researchDoris Warriner and Anne Pomerantz5 Disciplinary discourses and second language literacies: A systemic functional linguistic perspectiveNicole Siffrinn and Meg Gebhard6 Genre, discourse, and second language researchChristine M. Tardy and Jeroen Gevers7 Grammatical complexity, discourse, and second language researchGe Lan8 Critical perspectives on discourse and second language researchQinghua Chen, Yanmei Zheng, and Angel M. Y. Lin9 A discursive psychological approach for second language acquisition researchMatthew T. Prior10 Sociocultural theory and L2 discourse: From descriptive to interventionist research in second language acquisitionAmy Snyder Ohta11 Sociocognitive perspectives on second language acquisition, teaching, and useDwight Atkinson, Anamaría Sagre Barboza, and Elif Burhan-Horasanlı12 Complex dynamic systems theory, interactional discourse, and second language researchAki Siegel and Paul Seedhouse13 Corpus approaches to discourse and second language researchSheena Gardner14 Ethnographic perspectives on discourse and second language researchHanako Okada15 Sociolinguistic perspectives on discourse and second language researchCorinne A. Seals and Honiara Salanoa16 Language socialization, discourse, and second language researchPatricia A. Duff and Masaru YamamotoPart II: Types of discourse17 Spoken discourse and second language researchMidori Ishida18 Written discourse and second language researchElena Cotos and Kimberly Becker19 Disciplinary discourses and second language researchBethany Gray and Chris Nuttall20 Metadiscourse and second language researchVictor Ho21 Classroom discourse and second language acquisitionChristopher Jenks and Olcay Sert22 Multilingual discourse and second language researchTarja Nikula and Anne Pitkänen-HuhtaPart III: Areas of use23 Technology-mediated discourse and second language researchVincenza Tudini and Anthony J. Liddicoat24 Intercultural pragmatics, discourse, and second language researchIstvan Kecskes25 Identity, discourse, and second language researchElizabeth Miller26 Gender, sexuality, discourse, and second language acquisition researchSusan Ehrlich and Tommaso Milani27 Discourse, competence, and second language acquisition researchDaisuke KimuraIndex

Brian Paltridge is Professor of TESOL at the University of Sydney, Australia. He has served as editor for the journals English for Specific Purposes and TESOL Quarterly.Matthew T. Prior is Associate Professor of English (Applied Linguistics, Linguistics, and TESOL) at Arizona State University, USA. He has edited several volumes and journal special issues. Most recently, he served as associate editor of Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, which he helped launch.

"The volume by Brian Paltridge and Matthew T. Prior offers to the field contemporary perspectives on the theoretical and methodological power of discourse analytic approaches in furthering understandings of second language learning, teaching, and use in a wide range of contexts. Novice and seasoned researchers alike will find the chapters eminently useful."Joan Kelly Hall, Professor Emerita of Applied Linguistics, The Pennsylvania State University, USA

• List of figuresList of tablesList of contributors1 IntroductionBrian Paltridge and Matthew T. PriorPart I: Approaches and perspectives2 Conversation analysis and second language researchAtsushi Hasegawa3 Multimodal discourse analysis and second language researchChristoph Hafner4 Narrative inquiry and second language researchDoris Warriner and Anne Pomerantz5 Disciplinary discourses and second language literacies: A systemic functional linguistic perspectiveNicole Siffrinn and Meg Gebhard6 Genre, discourse, and second language researchChristine M. Tardy and Jeroen Gevers7 Grammatical complexity, discourse, and second language researchGe Lan8 Critical perspectives on discourse and second language researchQinghua Chen, Yanmei Zheng, and Angel M. Y. Lin9 A discursive psychological approach for second language acquisition researchMatthew T. Prior10 Sociocultural theory and L2 discourse: From descriptive to interventionist research in second language acquisitionAmy Snyder Ohta11 Sociocognitive perspectives on second language acquisition, teaching, and useDwight Atkinson, Anamaría Sagre Barboza, and Elif Burhan-Horasanlı12 Complex dynamic systems theory, interactional discourse, and second language researchAki Siegel and Paul Seedhouse13 Corpus approaches to discourse and second language researchSheena Gardner14 Ethnographic perspectives on discourse and second language researchHanako Okada15 Sociolinguistic perspectives on discourse and second language researchCorinne A. Seals and Honiara Salanoa16 Language socialization, discourse, and second language researchPatricia A. Duff and Masaru YamamotoPart II: Types of discourse17 Spoken discourse and second language researchMidori Ishida18 Written discourse and second language researchElena Cotos and Kimberly Becker19 Disciplinary discourses and second language researchBethany Gray and Chris Nuttall20 Metadiscourse and second language researchVictor Ho21 Classroom discourse and second language acquisitionChristopher Jenks and Olcay Sert22 Multilingual discourse and second language researchTarja Nikula and Anne Pitkänen-HuhtaPart III: Areas of use23 Technology-mediated discourse and second language researchVincenza Tudini and Anthony J. Liddicoat24 Intercultural pragmatics, discourse, and second language researchIstvan Kecskes25 Identity, discourse, and second language researchElizabeth Miller26 Gender, sexuality, discourse, and second language acquisition researchSusan Ehrlich and Tommaso Milani27 Discourse, competence, and second language acquisition researchDaisuke KimuraIndex