Discourse on the Move : Using Corpus Analysis to Describe Discourse Structure Hardback
by Douglas Biber, Ulla Connor, Thomas A. Upton
Part of the Studies in Corpus Linguistics series
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Discourse on the Move is the first book-length exploration of how corpus-based methods can be used for discourse analysis, applied to the description of discourse organization.
The primary goal is to bring these two analytical perspectives together: undertaking a detailed discourse analysis of each individual text, but doing so in terms that can be generalized across all texts of a corpus.
The book explores two major approaches to this task: 'top-down' and 'bottom-up'.
In the 'top-down' approach, the functional components of a genre are determined first, and then all texts in a corpus are analyzed in terms of those components.
In contrast, textual components emerge from the corpus analysis in the bottom-up approach, and the discourse organization of individual texts is then analyzed in terms of linguistically-defined textual categories.
Both approaches are illustrated through case studies of discourse structure in particular genres: fund-raising letters, biology/biochemistry research articles, and university classroom teaching.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:290 pages
- Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
- Publication Date:19/09/2007
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- ISBN:9789027223029
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Item not Available
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:290 pages
- Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
- Publication Date:19/09/2007
- Category:
- ISBN:9789027223029
