Text and Discourse Connectedness

Text and Discourse Connectedness
Author: Maria-Elisabeth Conte
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 613
Release: 1989-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 902723017X

The 35 papers in this volume provide a comprehensive picture of crucial aspects of connectedness. The papers are divided into three main groups: the papers in the first group deal with particular questions of the text-constituting role of anaphora, deixis, coreference, modality, conjunctions and particles, theme, topic, ellipsis, etc., the second group of papers discusses the connectedness in texts/discourses of different types (narrative texts, stories, horoscopes, anecdotes, poems, comics, etc.), and, finally, the papers in the third group discuss general theoretical/methodological questions concerning connectedness.

Connexity and Coherence

Connexity and Coherence
Author: Wolfgang Heydrich
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 425
Release: 2012-02-13
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 311085483X

Text and Discourse Constitution

Text and Discourse Constitution
Author: János S. Petöfi
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 529
Release: 2011-05-02
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110862123

Text and Discourse Constitution: Empirical Aspects, Theoretical Approaches (Research in Text Theory.

Discourse Description

Discourse Description
Author: William C. Mann
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 426
Release: 1992
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 902725026X

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.

Discourse Particles in Latin

Discourse Particles in Latin
Author: Caroline Kroon
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2019-10-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9004408991

Due to their extremely elusive nature, particles have long been treated in a stepmotherly way, in grammars of individual languages as well as in theories of language. This study is representative of the recent upsurge of interest in particles, more particularly in particles with a discourse marking function. By offering a detailed account of a number of Latin discourse particles, the study provides more insight into a vitually neglected area of Latin. At the same time it contributes to the theoretical and methodological foundations of current particle research and, more generally, to the development of linguistic models of discourse.

Analysing Academic Writing

Analysing Academic Writing
Author: Louise Ravelli
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2005-12-07
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780826488022

This volume covers the writing not only of native speakers of the language in which they are being taught, but also that of those to whom the language of pedagogy is secondary. Australian editors.

Small Corpus Studies and ELT

Small Corpus Studies and ELT
Author: Mohsen Ghadessy
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2001
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781588110350

Recent developments in this field of small corpus studies, largely brought about by the personal computer, have yielded remarkable insights into the nature and use of real language. This book presents work by a number of leading researchers in the field and covers a series of topics directly related to language teaching and language research. The ultimate aim of this book is to encourage the exploitation of small corpora by the ELT profession to make language learning more effective. In addition to descriptions of the basic corpus analysis tools, chapters in the collection cover syllabus and materials design, comparisons of different genres, descriptions of local and functional grammars, compilation and use of learner corpora, and making cross-linguistic comparisons. The message of this collection is that language use is purposeful and culture specific and that small corpus analysis is an effective method of linguistic investigation."Preface by: " John Sinclair;

Language, Text and Context

Language, Text and Context
Author: Michael Toolan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2016-11-18
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 131540236X

First published in 1992, this wide-ranging collection of essays focuses on the principle of contextualisation as it applies to the interpretation, description, theorising and reading of literary and non-literary texts. The collection aims to reveal the interdependencies between theory, analysis, text and context by challenging the myth that stylistics entails a fundamental separation of text from context, linguistic description from descriptive interpretation, or language from situation. The essays cover a historically diverse set of texts, from Puttenham to Colemanballs, and a number of language-sensitive topics such as post-modernism, irony, newspaper representations, gender and narrative.

The Dynamics of Language Use

The Dynamics of Language Use
Author: Christopher S. Butler
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2005-09-22
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027294186

This book brings together a collection of articles characterized by two main themes: the contrastive study of parallel phenomena in two or more languages, and an essentially functional approach in which language is regarded, first and foremost, as a rich and complex communication system, inextricably embedded in sociocultural and psychological contexts of use. The majority of the studies reported is empirical in nature, many making use of corpora or other textual materials in the language(s) under investigation. The book begins with an introductory section in which the editors provide surveys of the state of the art in both functional and contrastive linguistics. The other five sections of the volume are devoted to (i) a cognitive perspective on form and function, (ii) information structure, (iii) collocations and formulaic language, (iv) language learning, and (v) discourse and culture.