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This book, which is aimed at the advanced undergraduate student, is the first systematic and comprehensible introduction to the theory and application of discourse analysis within the field of social psychology and related disciplines. Its authors use discourse'in its most open sense, meaning all forms of talking and writing, to look at the subtle ways in which language orders perceptions and makes things happen. Language is active, they contend, and thus carries social and political implications and meanings (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)