Discourse patterns in spoken and written Corpora / edited by Karin Aijmer, Anna-Brita Stenstrom.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aijmer, Karin.

Stenström, Anna-Brita, 1932-

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 120.

Pragmatics & beyond, 0922-842X ; new ser. 120

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discourse analysis.

Linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, PA : J. Benjamins, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book brings together a number of empirical studies that use corpora to study discourse patterns in speech and writing. It explores new trends in the area of text and discourse characterized by the alliance between text linguistics and areas such as corpus linguistics, genre analysis, literary stylistics and cross-linguistic studies. The contributions to the volume show how established corpora can be used to ask a number of new questions about the interface between speech and writing, the relation between grammar and discourse, academic discourse, cohesive markers, stylistic devices such as metaphor, deixis and non-verbal communication. The corpora used for text-analysis can also be tailor-made for the study of particular genres such as journal article abstracts, lectures, e-mailing list messages, headlines and titles. A recent development is to bring in contrastive data from bilingual corpora to show what is language-specific in the organization of the text.

Contents:

Discourse Patterns in Spoken and Written Corpora

Editorial page

Title page

LCC page

Contents

List of contributors

Discourse patterns in spoken and written corpora

References

I. Cohesion and coherence

The cataphoric indexicality of titles

Notes

Cataphoric complexity in spoken English

Conclusion

The role of multiple themes in cohesion

Sources of data

Cohesion and collaboration

II. Metadiscourse and discourse markers

Gestural and symbolic uses of the deictic here in academic lectures

Conclusions

The discourse functions of I don't know in English conversation*

"They're a little bit diŸerent"…

Interaction in written economics lectures

Concluding remarks

III. Text and information structure

Using non-extraposition in spoken and written texts

IV. Metaphor and text

English metaphors and their translation

Conclusion and perspectives

Index of names

Index of terms

The PRAGMATICS AND BEYOND NEW SERIES.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

9786612160509

9781282160507

1282160508

9789027295583

9027295581

OCLC:

1491308076