Discourse across languages and cultures / edited by Carol Lynn Moder and Aida Martinovic-Zic.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Moder, Carol Lynn.

Martinovic-Zic, Aida.

Series:

Studies in language companion series ; v. 68.

Studies in language companion series ; v. 68

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discourse analysis.

Intercultural communication.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (372 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Pub., 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume brings together for the first time research by linguists working in cross-linguistic discourse analysis and by second language researchers working in the contrastive rhetoric tradition. The collection of articles by prominent authors and younger scholars encompasses a variety of research approaches and treats numerous naturally-occurring spoken and written genres, including conversations, narratives, academic expository writing, journalism, advertising, and professional promotional texts. Languages examined include English, Spanish, French, Brazilian Portuguese, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Hebrew, Urdu, Dutch, Turkish and Serbo-Croatian. Taken individually and collectively, the articles in this collection draw important conclusions concerning the roles of cognition, multilingualism, communities of practice, and linguistic typology in shaping discourse within and across cultures.

Contents:

Discourse Across Languages and Cultures

Editorial page

Title page

LCC page

Contents

1. Discourse across cultures, across disciplines

References

2. Holistic textlinguistics

Notes

3. Discourse effects of polysynthesis

Abbreviations

4. Prosodic schemas

5. Rhetorical relations in dialogue

6. Interlanguage pragmatics

7. Discourse marker use in native and non-native English speakers

8. Discourse markers across languages

9. Intertextuality across communities of practice

10. Genre as a locus of social structure and cultural ideology

11. How people move

12. Why manner matters

Acknowledgements

13. Episodic boundaries in Japanese and English narratives

14. Rhetorical influences

15. Contrastive discourse analysis

16. Academic biliteracy and the mother tongue

17. Texts as image schemas

18. Genre and modality in developing discourse abilities

Index of subjects

Index of languages

Index of names

The series Studies in Language Companion Series.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612254413

9789027295262

9027295263

9781282254411

1282254413

9781423761358

1423761359