Understanding Text and Discourse
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Understanding Text and Discourse

Understanding Text and Discourse

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The study of discourse, both in its written and spoken forms, is of growing interest across a number of disciplines, including linguistics, psychology, literary studies and anthropology. Discourse is defined as anything that extends beyond the boundaries of one sentence or utterance. It is the structure of discourse that is the focus of this text. The authors take a broad approach to the subject, and look at discourse from many perspectives, including those of text linguistics, discourse analysis, and conversation analysis. The book is divided into sections which examine the different types of methodological approaches to discourse. Each section contains at least one "real-life" text/piece of discourse to be used as the "data source" through which concepts and theories can be illustrated. Discourse analysis is an increasingly interdisciplinary field with different disciplines approaching the subject in different ways. This book presents the basics of these different approaches to analyzing text and discourse within a linguistics context.

Table of Contents:
Part 1 Historical overview - early strands; the 60's amd 70's; the present situation. Part 2 Understanding texts - sample text; shuffling words around - information structure; linking sentences - cohesion; creating connections - coherence; choosing a perspective - grounding and point of view; text variation - discourse types and genres; speaking and writing; using a computer; looking back - text without contexts?. Part 3 Understanding interaction - sample text; being co-operative and polite - maxims and principles; being persuasive - argumentation structure; having the floor - turn-taking and hedging; language is interaction; situational contexts; understanding emotions - involvement and affect; acquiring discourse competence. Part 4 Understanding voices in discourse - telling stories - narratology; sample text; having several perspectives - polyphony; creating chaos? heteroglossia and deconstruction; what is style; demands on linguistics in a postmodern society. Part 5 Understanding culture through discourse - going international - cross-cultural communication; languages in contact; understanding differences - cross-cultural rhetoric; focus on translation; focus on communication strategies; being socially relevant - critical discourse analysis; language in news reports; focus on the implicit - discourse and ideology. Part 6 Discourse in linguistics - theoretical delimitations; language as discourse.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780340676387
  • Publisher: Hodder Arnold
  • Publisher Imprint: Hodder Arnold
  • Height: 234 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0340676388
  • Publisher Date: 29 Oct 2004
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Width: 156 mm


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