Format:
Online-Ressource (1 online resource (336 p.))
,
digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9780511615108
Series Statement:
Cambridge Studies in Linguistics no. 103
Content:
In studying discourse, the problem for the linguist is to find a fruitful level of analysis. Carlota Smith offers a new approach with this study of discourse passages, units of several sentences or more. She introduces the key idea of the 'Discourse Mode', identifying five modes: Narrative, Description, Report, Information, Argument. These are realized at the level of the passage, and cut across genre lines. Smith shows that the modes, intuitively recognizable as distinct, have linguistic correlates that differentiate them. She analyzes the properties that distinguish each mode, focusing on grammatical rather than lexical information. The book also examines linguistically based features that appear in passages of all five modes: topic and focus, variation in syntactic structure, and subjectivity, or point of view. Operating at the interface of syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, the book will appeal to researchers and graduate students in linguistics, stylistics and rhetoric
Content:
1. The study of discourse -- 2. Introduction to the Discourse Modes -- 3. Text representation and understanding -- 4. Aspectual information: the entities introduced in discourse -- 5. Temporal and spatial progression -- 6. Referring expressions in discourse -- 7. Subjectivity in texts -- 8. The contribution of surface presentation -- 9. Non-canonical structures and presentation -- 10. Information in text passages -- 11. Discourse structure and Discourse Modes
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521781695
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521120623
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-052-178-169-5
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521781695
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Textlinguistik
;
Modalität
;
Diskursanalyse
;
Textkohärenz
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511615108
URL:
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