Discourse patterns in spoken and written Corpora / / edited by Karin Aijmer, Anna-Brita Stenstrom

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910815485403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Philadelphia, PA, : J. Benjamins, 2004
• ISBN: 1-282-16050-8; 9786612160509; 90-272-9558-1
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (287 pages)
• Collana: Pragmatics & beyond, , 0922-842X ; ; new ser. 120
• Altri autori (Persone): AijmerKarin; StenstromAnna-Brita <1932->
• Disciplina: 401/.41
• Soggetti: Discourse analysis; Linguistics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di contenuto: Discourse Patterns in Spoken and Written Corpora -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC page -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Discourse patterns in spoken and written corpora -- References -- I. Cohesion and coherence -- The cataphoric indexicality of titles -- Notes -- References -- Cataphoric complexity in spoken English -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- The role of multiple themes in cohesion -- Notes -- References -- Sources of data -- Cohesion and collaboration -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- II. Metadiscourse and discourse markers -- Gestural and symbolic uses of the deictic here in academic lectures -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- The discourse functions of I don't know in English conversation* -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- "They're a little bit diŸerent"… -- Conclusion -- References -- Interaction in written economics lectures -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- III. Text and information structure -- Using non-extraposition in spoken and written texts -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- IV. Metaphor and text -- English metaphors and their translation -- Conclusion and perspectives -- Notes -- References -- Index of names -- Index of terms -- The PRAGMATICS AND BEYOND NEW SERIES.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book brings together a number of empirical studies that use corpora to study discourse patterns in speech and writing. It explores new trends in the area of text and discourse characterized by the alliance between text linguistics and areas such as corpus linguistics, genre analysis, literary stylistics and cross-linguistic studies. The contributions to the volume show how established corpora can be used to ask a number of new questions about the interface between speech and writing, the relation between grammar and discourse, academic discourse, cohesive markers, stylistic devices such as metaphor, deixis and non-verbal communication. The corpora used for text-analysis can also be tailor-made for the study of particular genres such as journal article abstracts, lectures, e-mailing list messages, headlines and titles. A recent development is to bring in contrastive data from bilingual corpora to show what is language-specific in the organization of the text.