Introduction to discourse studies / Jan Renkema.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Renkema, J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discourse analysis.

Conversation analysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (374 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Introduction to Discourse Studies follows on Jan Renkema's successful Discourse Studies: An Introductory Textbook (1993), published in four languages. This new book deals with even more key concepts in discourse studies and approaches major issues in this field from the Anglo-American and European as well as the Australian traditions. It provides a 'scientific toolkit' for future courses on discourse studies and serves as a stepping stone to the independent study of professional literature.Introduction to Discourse Studies is the result of more than twenty-five years of experience gained in doing research and teaching students, professionals and academics at various universities. The book is organized in fifteen comprehensive chapters, each subdivided in modular sections that can be studied separately. It includes 400 references, from the most-cited contemporary publications to influential classic works; 500 index entries covering frequently used concepts in the field; more than 100 thought-provoking questions, all elaborately answered, which are ideal for teacher-supported self-education; nearly 100 assignments that provide ample material for teachers to focus on specific topics of their own preference in their lectures.Jan Renkema is a member of the Discourse Studies Group at Tilburg University, The Netherlands, where he also holds the Chair in Effective Language Use. He is general editor of IDJ (Information Design Journal).

Contents:

Introduction to Discourse Studies

Title page

LCC page

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

1 Introduction

1.1 A rough definition of discourse studies

1.2 Aim and structure of this book

1.3 The presentation of the material

Questions and assignments

Bibliographical information

Part I. General orientation

2 Communication as action

2.1 The Organon model

2.2 Speech act theory

2.3 Illocutions in discourse

2.4 The cooperative principle

2.5 Relevance theory

2.6 Politeness theory

3 Discourse in communication

3.1 The pragmatic perspective

3.2 Rules for symbolic interaction

3.3 Messages between sender and receiver

3.4 The discourse situation

3.5 The socio-semiotic approach

3.6 What makes discourse discourse?

Part II. Backpacking for a scientific journey

4 Discourse types

4.1 The variety of functions and forms

4.2 Written language and verbal interaction

4.3 Everyday and literary language

4.4 Electronic discourse

4.5 Conventionalized forms for conventionalized occasions

4.6 Multimodality

5 Structured content

5.1 Propositions

5.2 Topics

5.3 Macrostructures

5.4 Superstructures

6 Discourse connections

6.1 Cohesion

6.2 Referential elements

6.3 Coherence

6.4 Rhetorical Structure Theory

6.5 Discourse relation research

7 Contextual phenomena

7.1 Deixis

7.2 Staging

7.3 Perspectivization

7.4 Given-new management

7.5 Presuppositions

7.6 Inferences

8 Style.

8.1 Form, content and situation

8.2 Views on style

8.3 Stylistic analysis

8.4 Examples of stylistic research

Part III. Special modes of communication

9 Conversation analysis

9.1 Transcription systems

9.2 The turn-taking model

9.3 Sequential organization

9.4 Discourse markers

10 Informative discourse

10.1 Readability in a formula

10.2 The measurement of understanding

10.3 Judging discourse quality

10.4 The improvement of documents

11 Narratives

11.1 The structure of fairy tales

11.2 The sociolinguistic approach

11.3 The psycholinguistic approach

11.4 The organizational approach

12 Argumentation and persuasion

12.1 The structure of argumentation

12.2 The pragma-dialectical approach

12.3 The social-psychological approach

12.4 The quality of argumentation

Part IV. Special interests

13 Discourse and cognition

13.1 Modeling discourse production

13.2 Product and process analysis

13.3 Processing and prior knowledge

13.4 Aspects of processing

13.5 Modeling discourse processing

13.6 The metaphor in cognitive research

14 Discourse and institution

14.1 The agent-client approach

14.2 Politics

14.3 Law

14.4 Bureaucracy

14.5 Media

14.6 Health care

15 Discourse and culture

15.1 The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis

15.2 Critical Discourse Analysis

15.3 Gender

15.4 Racism

15.5 Intercultural communication

Questions and assignments.

Bibliographical information

Key to the questions

References

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-16029-X

9786612160295

90-272-9523-9

OCLC:

70773073