Advances in spoken discourse analysis / edited by Malcolm Coulthard.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Coulthard, Malcolm.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discourse analysis.

Semantics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1992.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection reviews 20 years of research into Spoken Discourse by the Birmingham group, allowing, for the first time, a developmental perspective. It combines previously published but unavailable work with new research. Bringing together recent theories of discourse structure, with a new and detailed analytic framework, the book emphasises both historical context and new developments. The articles are comprehensive, ranging from the theoretical to the highly applied. Practical applications include language teaching, literary stylistics and forensic linguistics with examples taken from lite

Contents:

Cover; Advances in Spoken Discourse Analysis; Copyright; Contents; Preface; About the authors; 1 Towards an analysis of discourse; 2 The significance of intonation in discourse; 3 Exchange structure; 4 Priorities in discourse analysis; 5 A functional description of questions; 6 Caught in the act: using the rank scale to address problems of delicacy; 7 Analysing everyday conversation; 8 Inner and outer: spoken discourse in the language classroom; 9 Intonation and feedback in the EFL classroom; 10 Interactive lexis: prominence and paradigms; 11 Listening to people reading

12 Forensic discourse analysisBibliography

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-134-91892-5

1-134-91893-3

1-280-32536-4

0-203-20006-3

9780203200063

OCLC:

318565068