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" Discourse analysis / "
Gillian Brown, George Yule
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BL
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630773
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Brown, Gillian
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Discourse analysis /\ Gillian Brown, George Yule
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge ;New York :: Cambridge University Press,, 1983
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| Series Statement
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Cambridge textbooks in linguistics
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xii, 288 pages ;; 24 cm
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0521241448
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: 9780521241441
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: 0521284759
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: 9780521284752
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| Notes
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Includes indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 272-283)
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| Contents
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Part I: Introduction: linguistic forms and function -- The functions of language -- Spoken and written language -- Sentence and utterance -- Part II: The role of context in interpretation -- Pragmatics and discourse context -- The context of situation -- The expanding context -- The principles of 'local interpretation' and of 'analogy' -- Part III: Topic and the representation of discourse content -- Discourse fragments and the notion of 'topic' -- Sentential topic -- Discourse topic -- Relevance and speaking topically -- Speaker's topic -- Topic boundary makers -- Discourse topic and the representation of discourse content -- Problems with the proposition-based representation of discourse content -- Memory for text-content: story-grammars -- Representing text-content as a network -- Part IV: 'Staging' and the representation of discourse structure -- The linearisation problem -- Theme -- Thematisation and 'staging' -- Part V: Information structure -- The structure of information -- Information structure and syntactic form -- Th psychological status of 'givenness' -- Conclusion -- Part VI: The nature of reference in text and in discourse -- What is 'text'? -- Discourse reference -- Pronouns in discourse -- Part VII: Coherence in the interpretation of discourse -- Coherence in discourse -- Computing communicative function -- Speech acts -- Using knowledge of the world -- Top-down and bottom-up processing -- Representing background knowledge -- Determining the inferences to be made -- Inferences as missing links -- Inferences and non-automatic connections --- Inferences as filling in gaps or discontinuities in interpretation -- Conclusion
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Discourse analysis is a term which has come to have different interpretations for scholars working in different disciplines. For a sociolinguist, it is concerned mainly with the structre of social interaction manifested in conversation; for a psycholinguist, it is primarily concerned with the nature of comprehension of short written texts; for the computational linguist, it is concerned with producing operational models of text-understanding within highly limited contexts. In this textbook, the authors provide an extensive overview of the many and diverse approaches to the study of discourse, but base their own approach centrally on the discipline which, to varying degrees, is common to them all - linguistics. Using a methodology which has much in common with descriptive linguistics, they offer a lucid and wide-ranging account of how forms of language are used in communication. Their principal concern is to examine how any language produced by man, whether spoken or written, is used to communicate for a purpose in a context. The discussion is carefully illustrated throughout by a wide variety of discourse types (conversations recorded in different social situations, extracts from newspapers, notices, contemporary fiction, graffiti, etc.). The techniques of analysis are described and exemplified in sufficient detail for the student to be able to apply them to any language in context that he or she encounters. A familiarity with elementary linguistics is assumed, but the range of issues discussed in conjunction with the variety of exemplification presented will make this a valuable and stimulating textbook not only for students of linguistics, but for any reader who wishes to investigate the principles underlying the use of language in natural contexts to communicate and understand intended meaning. -- Publisher description
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Discourse analysis
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401/.41
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P302.B76 1983
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Yule, George,1947-
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