This book provides basic knowledge and insights about various types of analysis or inquiry that might be applied to study language, especially as social practice. Topics include textual and conversational analysis, content analysis, discourse analysis, multimodal discourse analysis, linguistic ethnography, narrative inquiry, social semiotic analysis, and corpus methods. Arranged from introduction, key concepts, nature and characteristics, application, implications, and examples from the fields, this book will help beginner linguists to understand easily the knowledge and put it into practice.