Discourse Analysis as Theory and Method

Discourse Analysis as Theory and Method
Author: Marianne W Jørgensen
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2002-12-26
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780761971122

A systematic introduction to discourse analysis as a body of theories and methods for social research. Introduces three approaches and explains the distinctive philosophical premises and theoretical perspectives of each approach.

The Grammar of Discourse

The Grammar of Discourse
Author: Robert E. Longacre
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2013-11-21
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1489901620

In that The Anatomy of Speech Notions (1976) was the precursor to The Grammar of Discourse (1983), this revision embodies a third "edition" of some of the material that is found here. The original intent of the 1976 volume was to construct a hierarchical arrangement of notional categories, which find surface realization in the grammatical constructions of the various languages of the world. The idea was to marshal the categories that every analyst-regardless of theoretical bent-had to take account of as cognitive entities. The volume began with a couple of chapters on what was then popularly known as "case grammar," then expanded upward and downward to include other notional categories on other levels. Chapters on dis course, monologue, and dialogue were buried in the center of the volume. In the 1983 volume, the chapters on monologue and dialogue discourse were moved to the fore of the book and the chapters on case grammar were made less prominent; the volume was then renamed The Grammar of Discourse. The current revision features more clearly than its predecessors the intersection of discourse and pragmatic concerns with grammatical structures on various levels. It retains and expands much of the former material but includes new material reflecting current advances in such topics as salience clines for discourse, rhetorical relations, paragraph structures, transitivity, ergativity, agency hierarchy, and word order typologies.

Discourse

Discourse
Author: David Howarth
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2000-12-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0335231837

* What do we mean by discourse? * What are the different conceptions of discourse and methods of discourse analysis in the contemporary social sciences? * How can this concept help to clarify key theoretical problems and illuminate empirical cases? The concept of discourse provokes considerable debate and is understood in a variety of ways in the contemporary social sciences. This text presents a comprehensive overview of the different conceptions and methods of discourse analysis, while setting out the traditions of thinking in which these conceptions have emerged. It surveys structuralist, post-structuralist and post-Marxist theory, and the author sets out a fresh approach to discourse analysis, drawing principally on the writings of Saussure, Levi-Strauss, Gramsci, Althusser, Foucault, Derrida, Laclau and Mouffe. He evaluates a number of pertinent criticisms of this approach, and explores ways in which discourse analysis can assist our understanding of identity formation, hegemony, and the relationship between structure and agency. This concise and engaging text provides a stimulating introduction to the concept of discourse for students and researchers across the social sciences.

The Discourse of Online Consumer Reviews

The Discourse of Online Consumer Reviews
Author: Camilla Vásquez
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2014-06-19
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1441196846

The Discourse of Online Reviews is the first book to provide an account of the discursive, pragmatic and rhetorical features of this rapidly growing form of technologically-mediated communication. Examining a corpus of over 1,000 consumer reviews, Camilla Vásquez explores many of the discourse features that are characteristic of this new, user-generated, computer-mediated and primarily text-based genre. She investigates the language used by reviewers as they forge connections with their audiences to draw them into their stories, as they construct their expertise and authority on various subjects and as they evaluate and assess their consumer experiences. She also demonstrates how reviewers display their awareness about emerging conventions of the very genre in which they are participating. This book adopts an eclectic approach to the analysis of discourse, and explores topics such as evaluation, identity and intertextuality as they occur in online reviews of hotels, restaurants, recipes, films and other consumer products.

COMMUNITIES OF DISCOURSE

COMMUNITIES OF DISCOURSE
Author: Robert Wuthnow
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 751
Release: 1993
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780674151659

A Discourse Analysis of the Letter to the Hebrews

A Discourse Analysis of the Letter to the Hebrews
Author: Cynthia Long Westfall
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2006-06-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0567472191

This study attempts to analyse the text of Hebrews with a method of discourse analysis primarily based on a form of systemic functional linguistics developed for Hellenistic Greek, but it is also informed by other linguistic studies. It begins with a general survey of the literature that is either influential or representative of approaches to the structure of Hebrews. The survey is followed by an introduction to the terminology and definitions of discourse analysis, as well as the theory behind the methodology, and describes a procedure for analysing text. Hebrews is treated as having three sections. The first section of Hebrews (1:1-4:16) demonstrates the organization of the units, the topic of the units, the prominent text, and the relationship of the first section with the rest of the discourse. The second section of Hebrews (4:11-10:25) is described in two parts (4:11-7:28 and 8:1-10:25) because of its length. There is an overlap between the first and second sections in 4:11-16 and between the second and third sections in 10:19-25. Both of these passages have a concluding function for the preceding co-text and a staging function for the following co-text, so that they look backwards and forwards. The third and final section in 10:19-13:25 contains the climax or discourse peak. The study is concluded with a description of the coherence of the discourse and a presentation of a mental representation of the text. JSNTS and Studies in New Testament Greek subseries

Discourse, Ideology and Heritage Language Socialization

Discourse, Ideology and Heritage Language Socialization
Author: Martin Guardado
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2018-03-19
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1614513848

The book examines the development and maintenance of a minority language, engaging on both micro and macro levels to address open questions in the field. Guardado provides a history of the study of language maintenance, including discussion of language socialization, cosmopolitan identities, and home practices. In particular, the author uses 'discourse' as a primary tool to understand minority language development and maintenance.

The Theory and Practice of Discourse Parsing and Summarization

The Theory and Practice of Discourse Parsing and Summarization
Author: Daniel Marcu
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2000
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780262133722

Most discourse researchers assume that full semantic understanding is necessary to derive the discourse structure of texts. This book documents an attempt to construct and use automatic and non-semantic computational structures for text summarization.

Discourse

Discourse
Author: Sara Mills
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2006-10-19
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 113483604X

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'.

Acetaria

Acetaria
Author: John Evelyn
Publisher:
Total Pages: 298
Release: 1699
Genre: Angiosperms
ISBN:

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