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| Author | : William C. Mann |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 426 |
| Release | : 1992-01-01 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027250316 |
Discourse Description presents in one convenient volume a variety of approaches to text description that have been proposed in the linguistic literature in the last decade or so. The book is organized to make it easy to understand and compare the various approaches. Since all of the researchers are analyzing the same text, their differences are readily seen. The text they analyze is a letter, mailed in bulk by a Washington-based lobbying organization which is supported by contributions from donors. Far from simply informing the readers, the letter seeks to appeal to them on many levels, intellectual, emotional, and financial. It is a fascinating study in how texts do their work. Discourse Description is expected to serve both as a research document and as a case textbook for graduate and undergraduate courses in discourse and text analysis, as well as a resource for text analysts.
| Author | : Gwyneth Fox |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 266 |
| Release | : 2004-01-14 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1134881401 |
This book is a tribute to Malcolm Coulthard, who has been remarkably active and influential across a wide range of English Language Studies. He is particularly well-known for his pioneering work in spoken and written discourse analysis and most recently, for his work in forensic linguistics. This collection of specially commissioned, state-of-the-art pieces by leading international linguists is dedicated to the man and his achievements and provides a showcase for the most exciting developments in applied discourse studies. All the papers share common assumptions about language study: that descriptions should be data-based, data-tested and replicable. The collection as a whole contains original and important new research on descriptions, with intriuging applications to forensic, gender and literary studies.
| Author | : Douglas Biber |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 305 |
| Release | : 2007-09-19 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027291918 |
Discourse on the Move is the first book-length exploration of how corpus-based methods can be used for discourse analysis, applied to the description of discourse organization. The primary goal is to bring these two analytical perspectives together: undertaking a detailed discourse analysis of each individual text, but doing so in terms that can be generalized across all texts of a corpus. The book explores two major approaches to this task: ‘top-down’ and ‘bottom-up’. In the ‘top-down’ approach, the functional components of a genre are determined first, and then all texts in a corpus are analyzed in terms of those components. In contrast, textual components emerge from the corpus analysis in the bottom-up approach, and the discourse organization of individual texts is then analyzed in terms of linguistically-defined textual categories. Both approaches are illustrated through case studies of discourse structure in particular genres: fund-raising letters, biology/biochemistry research articles, and university classroom teaching.
| 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.
| Author | : Nikolas Coupland |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 274 |
| Release | : 2016-11-18 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1315402688 |
First published in 1988, this book focuses on diversity and discourse, and collects contemporaneous research across a wide range of topics including: description, polemic, narrative analysis, DJ talk, philosophical history, conversation, children’s books and nuclear deterrence. The essays demonstrate analyses of discourse in the service of stylistic inquiry, exploring relationships of text and context. This reflects the overall argument that discourse analyses aiming to represent diversity of social context will necessarily approach the task selectively, since all dimensions are of potential relevance to any and every communicative manifestation. Some of contextual dimensions that are addressed include: interpersonal, socio-structural, modal, ideological, and pragmatic.
| Author | : Nira Reiss |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 165 |
| Release | : 1985-01-01 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027279578 |
This study is intended to design measures for ethnographic description including speech acts in an etic instrumental approach, oriented toward an analysis of the functions of communicative events in relation to the ongoing stream of behavior. A revised taxonomy of speech acts is applied to an empirical corpus and is shown to produce a systematic set of behavioral measures which are potentially productive for cross-cultural comparison.
| Author | : Derek Edwards |
| Publisher | : SAGE |
| Total Pages | : 370 |
| Release | : 1997-02-10 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 9780803976979 |
`For those already familiar with discursive work it will be a joy - Edwards writes with enormous clarity and insight. For psychologists whose work involves an understanding of the relations between language and cognition this book will be essential reading.... This is a demanding book that will repay close attention. It can also be dipped into as a resource for the brilliant reworkings of traditional psychological topic areas, such as emotion, language, cognition, categories, AI, narrative, scripts and developmental psychology. If you want a glimpse into the future of psychology, get this book - the end of cognitivism starts here' - History and Philosophy of Psychology The central project of this mult
| Author | : Andreas H. Jucker |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 378 |
| Release | : 1998-07-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027285527 |
Studies of Discourse Markers so far have concentrated on either the descriptive or the theoretical parameter. This book brings together thirteen papers concerning aspects of lexical instantiations of Discourse Marking devices, ranging from functional descriptions along cognitive, attitudinal, interactive and structure signalling lines to theoretical issues arising from various properties discourse markers display cross-linguistically. Data from English, Finnish, Hebrew, Korean, and Japanese are examined. Also addressed are questions concerning overall accounts, potential sub-classifications, possible form-function correlations and the appropriateness of such frameworks as Relevance Theory for their description. Interestingly, features evident in the distribution and use of lexical discourse markers are shown to affect the assessment of such theoretical constructs as the distinction between conceptual and procedural meaning. A more sophisticated picture emerges than a simple dichotomy between the two. Studies of the grammar of Discourse Markers hence would have to take the observations and suggestions raised in this collection of papers into account.
| Author | : Michael Handford |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 709 |
| Release | : 2013-06-17 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 1136672923 |
Approaches to discourse analysis -- Register and genre -- Developments in spoken discourse -- Educational applications -- Institutional applications -- Identity, culture and 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.
