The texture of discourse : towards an outline of connectivity theory / Jan Renkema.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Renkema, J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Connectives.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Discourse analysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began, and know the place for the first time. (T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets; Little Gidding, 1943).

Contents:

The Texture of Discourse

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Preface

Introduction

1.1. The landscape of discourse studies

1.2. Challenges for a connectivity theory

1.3. About this study

Discourse as discursive and dialogic

2.1. Discourse, texture and connectivity

2.2. First explorations

2.3. The discursive principle

2.4. The dialogic principle

2.5. The principles as a framework

Conjunction

3.1. Discourse basics

3.2. Location

3.3. Ordination

3.4. Combination

3.5. Schema and application

Adjunction

4.1. On adding information

4.2. Elaboration

4.3. Extension

4.4. Enhancement

4.5. Schema and application

Interjunction

5.1. From addresser to addressee

5.2. Expressing relations

5.3. Processing relations

5.4. Impressing relations

5.5. Schema and application

The Connectivity Model

6.1. A new taxonomy of discourse relations

6.2. Adjunction relations, an overview

6.3. Interjunction relations, an overview

The architecture of the model

7.1. Notes on terminology

7.2. The Conjunction as a base

7.3. The levels of Adjunction and Interjunction

7.4. Positioning discourse relations

This model and other models

8.1. Cohesion structures

8.2. On defining discourse relations

8.3. The domain of connectivity

8.4. Comparing taxonomies

8.5. Controlled increasability

The representation of discourse

9.1. The unit of analysis

9.2. Discourse trees

9.3. Comments on trees

9.4. Connectivity graphs

9.5. An example of a connectivity graph

The interpretation of discourse relations

10.1. The coding procedure

10.2. On the ambiguity of discourse relations

10.3. Approaches to disambiguation of discourse relations

10.4. Three strategies for disambiguation

10.5. Examples of disambiguation

Starting the analysis.

11.1. Choosing a heuristic approach

11.2. Detecting form - function correspondences

11.3. The challenge of Conjunction analysis

11.4. Using other analyses

Some research examples

12.1. Signposts in discourse

12.2. On discourse competence

12.3. Discourse relations in the communication process

References

Author index

Subject index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612312311

9781282312319

1282312316

9789027289087

9027289085

OCLC:

496960465