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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779964003321

Titolo

Advances in written text analysis / / edited by Malcolm Coulthard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1994

ISBN

1-134-86719-0

1-138-13946-7

1-280-05222-8

1-134-86720-4

0-585-44813-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (335 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CoulthardMalcolm

Disciplina

401/.41

415

Soggetti

Discourse analysis

Written communication

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-320).

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; About the authors; Preface; Acknowledgements; On analysing and evaluating written text; Trust the text; Signalling in discourse: a functional analysis of a common discourse pattern in written and spoken English; Clause relations as information structure: two basic text structures in English; Predictive categories in expository text; Labelling discourse: an aspect of nominal-group lexical cohesion; The text and its message; The analysis of fixed expressions in text

The construction of knowledge and value in the grammar of scientific discourse, with reference to Charles Darwin's The Origin of SpeciesFrames of reference: contextual monitoring and the interpretation of narrative discourse; Inferences in discourse comprehension; Narratives of science and nature in popularizing molecular genetics; Evaluation and organization in a sample of written academic discourse; Genre analysis: an approach to text analysis for ESP; On Theme, Rheme and discourse goals; Negatives in written text; It, this and that; The structure of newspaper editorials

On reporting reporting: the representation of speech in factual and



factional narrativesReferences

Sommario/riassunto

Advances in Written Text Analysis provides an overview of a wide range of exciting and compatible approaches to written text analysis. It includes both classic and specially commissioned papers, by distinguished authors, which share a common linguistic framework. The pieces contain a variety of focuses from the patterning of paragraphs, sections or whole texts to the organization of clauses, individual expressions and single words, as well as a variety of text-types.