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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783638003321

Titolo

Advances in spoken discourse analysis / / edited by Malcolm Coulthard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1992

ISBN

1-134-91892-5

1-134-91893-3

1-280-32536-4

0-203-20006-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CoulthardMalcolm

Disciplina

401/.41

415

Soggetti

Discourse analysis

Languages & Literatures

Philology & Linguistics

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 (pages [259]-266).

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Advances in Spoken Discourse Analysis; Copyright; Contents; Preface; About the authors; 1 Towards an analysis of discourse; 2 The significance of intonation in discourse; 3 Exchange structure; 4 Priorities in discourse analysis; 5 A functional description of questions; 6 Caught in the act: using the rank scale to address problems of delicacy; 7 Analysing everyday conversation; 8 Inner and outer: spoken discourse in the language classroom; 9 Intonation and feedback in the EFL classroom; 10 Interactive lexis: prominence and paradigms; 11 Listening to people reading

12 Forensic discourse analysisBibliography

Sommario/riassunto

This collection reviews 20 years of research into Spoken Discourse by the Birmingham group, allowing, for the first time, a developmental perspective. It combines previously published but unavailable work with new research. Bringing together recent theories of discourse structure, with a new and detailed analytic framework, the book emphasises both historical context and new developments. The articles are comprehensive, ranging from the theoretical to the highly applied.



Practical applications include language teaching, literary stylistics and forensic linguistics with examples taken from lite