This course provides a comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of the meaning of discourse and text analysis. It introduces and examines various approaches to discourse and how it relates to different domains in real life. The course covers the following topics: discourse and society, discourse and pragmatics, discourse and genre, discourse and conversation, discourse grammar, critical discourse analysis, and discourse and genre in academic and professional domains. Based on their background knowledge of these relationships between discourse and the above-mentioned areas, students are expected to practice doing discourse analysis.