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Advances in written text analysis / edited by Malcolm Coulthard.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Discourse analysis.
- Written communication.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (335 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Advances in Written Text Analysis provides an overview of a wide range of exciting and compatible approaches to written text analysis. It includes both classic and specially commissioned papers, by distinguished authors, which share a common linguistic framework. The pieces contain a variety of focuses from the patterning of paragraphs, sections or whole texts to the organization of clauses, individual expressions and single words, as well as a variety of text-types.
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; About the authors; Preface; Acknowledgements; On analysing and evaluating written text; Trust the text; Signalling in discourse: a functional analysis of a common discourse pattern in written and spoken English; Clause relations as information structure: two basic text structures in English; Predictive categories in expository text; Labelling discourse: an aspect of nominal-group lexical cohesion; The text and its message; The analysis of fixed expressions in text
- The construction of knowledge and value in the grammar of scientific discourse, with reference to Charles Darwin's The Origin of SpeciesFrames of reference: contextual monitoring and the interpretation of narrative discourse; Inferences in discourse comprehension; Narratives of science and nature in popularizing molecular genetics; Evaluation and organization in a sample of written academic discourse; Genre analysis: an approach to text analysis for ESP; On Theme, Rheme and discourse goals; Negatives in written text; It, this and that; The structure of newspaper editorials
- On reporting reporting: the representation of speech in factual and factional narrativesReferences
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-320).
- ISBN:
- 1-134-86719-0
- 1-138-13946-7
- 1-280-05222-8
- 1-134-86720-4
- 0-585-44813-2
- 9780203422656
- OCLC:
- 252892698
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