Language As Discourse
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Author | : Michael Mccarthy |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2014-07-22 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1317896726 |
In this book Michael McCarthy and Ronald Carter describe the discoursal properties of language and demonstrate what insights this approach can offer to the student and teacher of language. The authors examine the relationship between complete texts, both spoken and written, and the social and cultural contexts in which they function. They argue that the functions of language are often best understood in a discoursal environment and that exploring language in context compels us to revise commonly-held understandings about the forms and meanings of language. In so doing, the authors argue the need for language teachers, syllabus planners and curriculum organisers to give greater attention to language as discourse.
Author | : Lee B. Abraham |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027219885 |
New technologies are constantly transforming traditional notions of language use and literacy in online communication environments. While previous research has provided a foundation for understanding the use of new technologies in instructed second language environments, few studies have investigated new literacies and electronic discourse beyond the classroom setting. This volume seeks to address this gap by providing corpus-based and empirical studies of electronic discourse analyzing social and linguistic variation as well as communicative practices in chat, discussion forums, blogs, and podcasts. Several chapters also examine the assessment and integration of new literacies. This volume will serve as a valuable resource for researchers, teachers, and students interested in exploring electronic discourse and new literacies in language learning and teaching.
Author | : Carol Lynn Moder |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027230782 |
This volume seeks to answers such questions as: how is conscious experience translated into discourse? How are foregrounding and backgrounding accomplished? What is the function of features like lexical choice and referential choice? And many more.
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.
Author | : Evelyn Hatch |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1992-01-31 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780521426053 |
Discourse and Language Education offers a practical, accessible discussion of discourse analysis. Discourse analysis describes how such communication is structured, so that it is socially appropriate and linguistically accurate. This book gives practical experience in analyzing discourse and the study of written language. The analyses show the ways we use linguistic signals to carry out our discourse goals and the differences between written and spoken language as well as across languages. This text can be used as a manual in teacher education courses and linguistics and communications courses. It will be of great interest to second language teachers, foreign language teachers, and special education teachers (especially those involved with the hearing impaired).
Author | : John Flowerdew |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 041549964X |
Discourse in English Language Education is designed to introduce students to the major concepts and issues in discourse analysis and its applications to language education, drawing on the key research from a range of approaches. This will be essential reading for upper undergraduates and postgraduates with interests in applied linguistics, TESOL and mother tongue language education.
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 | : Joan Cutting |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2021-10-25 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0585473803 |
This text describes how the language used in social interaction evolves from the time the speakers first meet and becomes the in-group code of a given discourse community (in this case the academic community). Most studies reported in the literature of the language of groups and intimates until now have been global, imprecise or unsystematic, and have described the language as a product at a given time; no systematic study appears to have been carried out to follow through the interactions of individuals as they form a group, to discover precisely how and why language changes over time as assumed knowledge grows. Here, the author focuses on the precise changes that occur with increasing knowledge over time, and uses a longitudinal approach to describe the language as a process.
Author | : Robert de Beaugrande |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 1994-10-20 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 902728363X |
The papers collected in this volume are a selection of papers presented at a conference on Language and Translation (Irbid, Jordan, 1992). In their revised form, they offer comparisons between Western and Arabic language usage and transfer. The articles bring together linguistic and cultural aspects in translation in a functional discourse framework set out in Part One: Theory, Culture, Ideology. Part Two addresses aspects for comparisons among translations and their cultural contexts (equivalence, stylistics and paragraphing). Part Three features Arabic-English language contact, specifically in technical writing, the media and academia. Part Four deals with problems in lexicography and grammar: terminology, verb-particle combinations and semantic diversity of ‘radical-doubling’ forms and includes a proposal for a new approach to English/Arabic dictionaries. Part Five turns to issues of interest to language teachers with practical proposals and demonstrations. Part Six deals with geopolitical factors linking the West and Middle East, focusing on equality in communication and exchange of information.
Author | : Allison Burkette |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2018-03-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1108424805 |
Introduces students to the scientific study of language, using the basic principles of complexity theory.