1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910711520303321

Autore

Smith Shirley J.

Titolo

Worklife estimates : effects of race and education

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.] : , : U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, , 1986

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (v, 33 pages)

Collana

Bulletin ; ; 2254

Disciplina

331.11/4

Soggetti

Age and employment - United States

Life span, Productive - United States

Life expectancy - United States

Age and employment

Life expectancy

Life span, Productive

Statistics.

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"February 1986."

"The author, Shirley J. Smith"--Page iii.

Shipping list no.: 86-227-P.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 7-8).



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910783647303321

Autore

Semino Elena <1964-, >

Titolo

Corpus stylistics : speech, writing and thought presentation in a corpus of English writing / / Elena Semino and Mick Short

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

1-134-44719-1

0-203-59997-7

1-134-44720-5

1-280-05639-8

0-203-49407-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (269 p.)

Collana

Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics

Altri autori (Persone)

ShortMick

Disciplina

420.1/41/0285

Soggetti

English language - Discourse analysis - Data processing

English language - Spoken English - Data processing

English language - Variation - Data processing

English language - Style - Data processing

Thought and thinking - Data processing

Narration (Rhetoric) - Data processing

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. [246]-250) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction: a corpus-based approach to the study of discourse presentation in written narratives; Methodology: the construction and annotation of the corpus; A revised model of speech, writing and thought presentation; Speech presentation in the corpus: a quantitative and qualitative analysis; Writing presentation in the corpus: a quantitative and qualitative analysis; Thought presentation in the corpus: a quantitative and qualitative analysis; Specific phenomena in speech, writing and thought presentation.

Case studies of specific texts from the corpus Conclusion; List of texts sampled; The SWTP tagset; Alphabetical list of reporting verbs for Indirect Speech presentation; Alphabetical list of reporting verbs for Direct Speech presentation; Alphabetical list of reporting verbs for Indirect Writing presentation; Alphabetical list of reporting verbs for



Direct Writing presentation; Alphabetical list of reporting verbs for Direct Thought presentation; Alphabetical list of reporting verbs for Indirect Thought presentation; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book combines stylistic analysis with corpus linguistics to present an innovative account of the phenomenon of speech, writing and thought presentation - commonly referred to as 'speech reporting' or 'discourse presentation'. This new account is based on an extensive analysis of a quarter-of-a-million word electronic collection of written narrative texts, including both fiction and non-fiction. The book includes detailed discussions of:The construction of this corpus of late twentieth-century written British narratives taken from fiction, newspaper news reports ...