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Robert E. Longacre

Holistic Discourse Analysis by Robert E. Longacre and Shin Ja J. Hwang, 2012, 264 pp., ISBN 978-1-55671-266-1, $39.95

The central idea of this volume is the simple insistence that the structure of a part of a discourse (or text) needs to be explained in light of the structure of the whole. The book can be used both as a textbook and field manual for discourse analysis.

Holistic Discourse Analysis, Second Edition by Robert E. Longacre and Shin Ja J. Hwang, 2012, 264 pp., ISBN 978-1-55671-329-3, $48.95

The central idea of this textbook is that the structure of a part of a discourse needs to be explained in light of the structure of the whole. This second edition employs the color-coding of example texts to aide in understanding the discourse structure.