Discourse, of course : an overview of research in discourse studies / edited by Jan Renkema.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Renkema, J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discourse analysis--Textbooks.

Discourse analysis.

Semantics.

Physical Description:

vii, 393 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Discourse, of Course comes after Jan Renkema's Introduction to Discourse Studies (2004) for undergraduates. The new book is a collection of twenty short papers. It is a capita selecta course and meant for graduate programs. The aim of this book is threefold: to present material for advanced courses in discourse studies; to unfold a stimulating display of research projects to future PhD students; to give an overview of new developments after the 2004 Introduction to Discourse Studies. This publication fulfills both the teacher's need for a state-of-the-art overview of the main topics in discourse, and the student's need to acquire standards for developing research plans in theses and dissertations. It gives a combination of approaches from very different schools in discourse studies, ranging from argumentation theory to genre theory, from the study of multimodal metaphors to cognitive approaches to coherence analysis. This book is not only meant to serve as a textbook, but also as a reference book for researchers who want an update for various main topics in the field.

Contents:

Doing discourse analysis with possible worlds / Andrea Rocci

Discourses "off course"? / Anna Duszak

Discourse across semiotic modes / John A. Bateman

Schemes and tropes in visual communication : the case of object grouping in advertisements / Alfons Maes and Joost Schilperoord

Text types and dynamism of genres / Sungsoon Wang

Academic and professional written genres in disciplinary communication : theoretical and empirical challenges / Giovanni Parodi

Why investigate textual information hierarchy? / Elisabeth Le

Implicit and explicit coherence relations / Maite Taboada

Style and culture in quantitative discourse analysis / Martin Kaltenbacher

Devices of probability and obligation in text types / Xinzhang Yang

Analysis and evaluation of argumentative discourse / Frans H. van Eemeren and Bart Garssen

Embodied cognition, discourse, and dual coding theory : new directions / Mark Sadoski

The cognition of discourse coherence / Ted Sanders and Wilbert Spooren

A computational psycholinguistic algorithm to measure cohesion in discourse / Max M. Louwerse and Patrick Jeuniaux

Chinese questions and power relations in institutional dialogue / Jinjun Wang

Towards a process view of preformulation in press releases / Geert Jacobs and Tom Van Hout

Media discourse / Kenneth C.C. Kong

Critical discourse analysis / Theo van Leeuwen

Gendered discursive constructions of bank manager positions : conflicting social identities / Inger Lassen

The semiotics of racism : a critical discourse-historical analysis / Ruth Wodak.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612169922

9781282169920

1282169920

9789027289810

9027289816

OCLC:

436148613