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" Discourse analysis : "
Brian Paltridge
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BL
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587573
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b416792
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| Main Entry
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Paltridge, Brian
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Discourse analysis : : an introduction /\ Brian Paltridge
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| Series Statement
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Continuum discourse series
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xii, 244 pages :: tables ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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9780826485564
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: 0826485561
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: 9780826485571
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: 082648557X
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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What is discourse analysis? -- What is discourse analysis? -- Different views of discourse analysis -- Differences between spoken and written discourse -- Directions for further reading -- Discourse and society -- Discourse communities and speech communities -- Speech communities and spoken and written discourse -- Discourse and language choice -- Discourse, social class and social networks -- Discourse and gender -- Discourse and sexuality -- Discourse and identity -- Discourse and ideology -- Data analysis projects -- Directions for further reading -- Discourse and pragmatics -- What is pragmatics? -- Language, context and discourse -- Speech acts and discourse -- The co-operative principle and discourse -- Flouting the co-operative principle -- Cross-cultural pragmatics and discourse -- Conversational implicature and discourse -- Politeness, face and discourse -- Face and politeness across cultures -- Politeness and gender -- Face-threatening acts -- Politeness and cross-cultural pragmatic failure -- Data analysis projects -- Directions for further reading -- Discourse and genre -- What is a genre? -- Relationships between genres -- Written genres across cultures -- Spoken genres across cultures -- Steps in genre analysis -- The social and cultural context of genres -- The discourse structure of genres -- Applications of genre analysis -- Data analysis projects -- Directions for further reading -- Discourse and conversation -- Background to conversation analysis -- Sequence and structure in conversation -- Preference organization -- Repair -- Gender and conversation analysis -- Conversation analysis and second language conversation -- Criticisms of conversation analysis -- A sample study: refusals -- Data analysis projects -- Directions for further reading -- Discourse grammar -- Grammar from a discourse perspective -- The texture of a text -- Cohesion and discourse -- Lexical cohesion -- Collocation -- Conjunction -- Substitution and ellipsis -- Patterns of cohesion: a sample analysis -- Theme and rheme -- Thematic progression -- Focusing on cohesion in student texts -- Data analysis projects -- Directions for further reading -- Corpus approaches to discourse analysis -- What is a corpus? -- Kinds of corpora -- Design and construction of corpora -- Issues to consider in constructing a corpus -- The Longman Spoken and Written English Corpus -- Discourse characteristics of conversational English -- Performance phenomena of conversational discourse -- Constructional principles of conversational discourse -- Corpus studies of the social nature of discourse -- Collocation and corpus studies -- Criticisms of corpus studies -- Data analysis projects -- Directions for further reading -- Critical discourse analysis -- Principles of critical discourse analysis -- Doing critical discourse analysis -- Critical discourse analysis and genre -- Critical discourse analysis and framing -- Critical discourse analysis and multimodality -- Critical discourse analysis and identity -- Critical discourse analysis and the world wide web -- Criticisms of critical discourse analysis -- Data analysis project -- Directions for further reading -- Doing discourse analysis -- Developing a discourse analysis project -- Choosing a research topic -- Focusing a research topic -- Turning the topic into a research question -- Kinds of discourse analysis projects -- Two sample discourse studies -- A spoken discourse project -- A written discourse project -- Combining discourse and other research perspectives -- Evaluating a discourse analysis project -- Planning a discourse analysis project -- Directions for further reading
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| Abstract
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This text presents a comprehensive, accessible introduction to discourse analysis. It examines different approaches to discourse, looking at discourse and society, discourse and pragmatics, discourse and conversation, discourse and genre, discourse grammar, corpus-based approaches to discourse and critical discourse analysis
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Discourse analysis
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Pragmatics
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Corpora (Linguistics)
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| Dewey Classification
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401.41
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| LC Classification
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P302.P23 2006
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