Patterns of text : in honour of Michael Hoey / edited by Mike Scott, Geoff Thompson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hoey, Michael.

Scott, Mike, 1946-

Thompson, Geoff, 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discourse analysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (331 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

It is increasingly clear that, in order to understand language as a phenomenon, we must understand the phenomenon of text. Our primary experience of language comes in the form of texts, which embody the complete communicative events through which our language-using lives are lived. These events are shaped by communicative needs, and this shaping is reflected in certain characteristic patterns in the texts. However, the nature of texts and text is still elusive: we know which forms are typically found in text but we do not yet have a full grasp of how they constitute its textuality, how they make a text "tick". The twelve contributions to this volume show how texts across a wide range of text types hold together by different patterns of chunking and linking. The common purpose in all the contributions is to explore the nature of text patterning as the functional environment within which language operates.

Contents:

Patterns of Text

Title page

LCC page

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Why 'patterns of text '?

Colligation, lexis, pattern, and text

Lexical signals of word relations

Patterns of cohesion in spoken text

Issues in modelling the textual metafunction

Mapping key words to problem and solution

The negotiation of evaluation in written text

Some discourse patterns and signalling of the assessment -basis relation

Repeat after me: The role of repetition in the life of an emergent reader

Lexical segments in text

Patterns of lexis on the surface of texts

Patterns of text in teacher education

The deification of information

Name index

Subject index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612162756

9781282162754

1282162756

9789027298492

9027298491