The Grammar of genres and styles : from discrete to non-discrete units.edited by Dominique Legallois, Thierry Charnois and Meri Larjavaara.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Legallois, Dominique.

Charnois, Thierry, 1959-

Larjavaara, Meri.

Series:

Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs

Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; 320

Language:

English

Physical Description:

248 pages ; 24cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, 2018.

Summary:

The book provides new findings about the grammar of genres and styles. It combines new methods with different kinds of empirical material, from social reports to live TV sports commentaries or 16th century newspapers, in English, French, Latin and Spanish. The study of non-discrete units suggests new ways of seeing the linguistic variation between genres and styles and the ways in which belonging to a genre predetermines linguistic choices.

Contents:

Grammar of genres and styles: an overview p. 1

Text types, audience and thematic organisation in the recent history of English p. 14 / Ana Elina Martínez-Insua and Javier Pérez-Guerra

Reference chains and genre Identification p. 39 / Catherine Schnedecker

Taking into account coherence relations to describe a textual genre: methodology and application to the discourse of tourist attraction guides p. 67 / Olivier Méric

Linguistic features of genre and method variation in translation: a computational perspective p. 92 / Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski and Marcos Zampieri

Approaching French theatrical characters by syntactical analysis: a study with motifs and correspondence analysis p. 118 / Francesca Frontini and Mohamed Amine Boukhaled and Jean-Gabriel Ganascia

Towards a topological grammar of genres and styles: a way to combine paradigmatic quantitative analysis with a syntagmatic approach p. 140 / Dominique Longrée and Sylvie Mellet

The balance between quantitative and qualitative literary stylistics: how the method of "motifs" can help p. 164 / Dominique Legallois and Thierry Chamois and Meri Larjavaara

Live TV sports commentaries: specific syntactic structures and general constraints p. 194 / Sandra Augendre and Anna Kupsc and Gilles Boyé and Catherine Mathon

Bursts of written language as performance units for the description of genre routines p. 219 / Georgeta Cislaru and Thierry Olive.

ISBN:

3110589680

9783110589689

OCLC:

1019652828