Sara Mills offers an accessible and comprehensive analysis of the term 'discourse' and explores the theoretical assumptions underlying it. This handy, easy to follow pocket guidebook for students provides:

• straightforward working definitions
• historical developments of the term
• studied analysis of Michel Foucault
• discussion of the appropriation of the term 'discourse' by feminist, colonial and post-colonial discourse theorists
• examples of literary and non-literary texts to illustrate the use of 'discourse'.