UID:
edocfu_9959230279702883
Format:
1 online resource (335 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-134-86719-0
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1-138-13946-7
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1-280-05222-8
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1-134-86720-4
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0-585-44813-2
Content:
Advances in Written Text Analysis provides an overview of a wide range of exciting and compatible approaches to written text analysis. It includes both classic and specially commissioned papers, by distinguished authors, which share a common linguistic framework. The pieces contain a variety of focuses from the patterning of paragraphs, sections or whole texts to the organization of clauses, individual expressions and single words, as well as a variety of text-types.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; About the authors; Preface; Acknowledgements; On analysing and evaluating written text; Trust the text; Signalling in discourse: a functional analysis of a common discourse pattern in written and spoken English; Clause relations as information structure: two basic text structures in English; Predictive categories in expository text; Labelling discourse: an aspect of nominal-group lexical cohesion; The text and its message; The analysis of fixed expressions in text
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The construction of knowledge and value in the grammar of scientific discourse, with reference to Charles Darwin's The Origin of SpeciesFrames of reference: contextual monitoring and the interpretation of narrative discourse; Inferences in discourse comprehension; Narratives of science and nature in popularizing molecular genetics; Evaluation and organization in a sample of written academic discourse; Genre analysis: an approach to text analysis for ESP; On Theme, Rheme and discourse goals; Negatives in written text; It, this and that; The structure of newspaper editorials
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On reporting reporting: the representation of speech in factual and factional narrativesReferences
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-09520-4
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-203-42265-1
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203422656
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