Discourse on the move : using corpus analysis to describe discourse structure / / Douglas Biber, Ulla Connor, Thomas A. Upton

• Autore: Biber Douglas
• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2007
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: xii, 289 p. : ill. ; ; 25 cm
• Disciplina: 401/.41
• Soggetto topico: Discourse analysis - Data processing
• Altri autori: ConnorUlla <1948-> UptonThomas A (Thomas Albin)
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-285) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Discourse on the Move -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Preface -- 1. Discourse analysis and corpus linguistics -- 1 Discourse and discourse analysis -- 1.1 Discourse studies of language use -- 1.2 Discourse studies of linguistic structure 'beyond the sentence' -- 1.3 Discourse studies of social practices and ideological assumptions associated with communication -- 1.4 "Register" and "genre" perspectives on discourse -- 1.5 Identifying structural units in discourse -- 2 Corpus-based investigation of discourse structure -- 3 Top-down versus bottom-up corpus-based approaches to discourse analysis -- 3.1 Examples of top-down analyses of discourse -- 3.2 Example of bottom-up approach -- 4 Creating a specialized corpus for discourse analysis -- 5 Overview of the book -- Part I. Top-down analyses of discourse organization -- 2. Introduction to move analysis -- 1 Background -- 2 Swales' move analysis of research articles -- 3 Move analysis of research articles applied across genres -- 3.1 Description and examples -- 3.2 Summary of previous research on move analysis -- 4 Overview of the methods for move analysis -- 4.1 General steps of a move analysis -- 4.2 Inter-rater reliability -- 5 Using a corpus-based approach to move analysis -- 5.1 Corpus-based move analysis -- 5.2 General advantages of corpus-based approaches to discourse analysis -- 5.3 Specific advantages of a corpus-based perspective for move analysis -- 5.3.1 Identifying linguistic features of moves -- 5.3.2 Move frequencies and lengths -- 5.3.3 Mapping move use and locations -- 5.3.4 Genre prototypes -- 6 Summary -- 3. Identifying and analyzing rhetorical moves in philanthropic discourse -- 1 Background -- 2 A specialized corpus of fundraising texts -- 3 Determining and analyzing discourse moves: Direct mail letters. ; 3.1 Previous analysis of direct mail letters -- 3.2 A move analysis of fundraising letters: Background and methodology -- 3.2.1 Move types -- 3.2.2 Structural elements -- 3.3 Analysis -- 3.4 Results -- 3.5 Discussion -- 3.6 Letter prototypes -- 4 Linguistic analysis of moves: Tracking the use of stance structures -- 4.1 Identifying grammatical stance devices -- 4.2 Interpreting the use of grammatical stance devices used in moves -- 5 Final thoughts -- 4. Rhetorical moves in biochemistry research articles -- 1 Background -- 2 Description of the corpus -- 3 Determining the move categories in the genre of biochemistry research articles -- 3.1 The Introduction section -- 3.2 The Methods section -- 3.3 The Results section -- 3.4 The Discussion section -- 4 Coding moves in the corpus of biochemistry research articles -- 5 Distribution of move types within texts from the biochemistry corpus -- 6 Linguistic characteristics of rhetorical moves in biochemistry research articles -- 7 Linguistic variation among move categories in biochemistry research articles -- 8 Multi-dimensional variation among move types within the same section -- 5. Rhetorical appeals in fundraising -- 1 Elements of Persuasion -- 2 Determining and analyzing rhetorical appeals -- 2.1 Rational appeals (Logos) -- 2.2 Credibility appeals (Ethos) -- 2.3 Affective appeals (Pathos) -- 3 Analysis, segmentation, and classification -- 3.1 Results and discussion -- 4 Linguistic description of appeals -- 4.1 Wordlists -- 4.2 Keywords -- 5 Appeals and discourse structure of letters -- 6 Conclusion -- Part II. Bottom-up analyses of discourse organization -- 6. Introduction to the identification and analysis of vocabulary-based discourse units -- 1 Conceptual introduction to VBDUs -- 2 Automatic identification of VBDUs in texts -- 3 Perceptual correlates of VBDUs. ; 4 Using VBDUs to analyze the discourse structure of texts -- 5 Going one step further: Identifying generalizable VBDU 'types' -- 7. Vocabulary-based discourse units in biology research articles -- 1 Constructing the corpus of VBDUs -- 2 Analyzing the linguistic characteristics of VBDUs: Multi-dimensional analysis -- 3 Comparing the multi-dimensional characteristics of research article sections -- 4 The multi-dimensional profile of VBDUs within a research article: Tracking the movement of discourse -- 5 Identifying and interpreting the multi-dimensional text types of biology research articles -- 6 Using VBDU text types to describe the discourse organizational patterns of biology research articles -- 7 Starting and ending research article sections -- 7.1 Describing the typical discourse organizations of Introductions -- 7.2 Describing the typical discourse organizations of methods sections -- 7.3 Describing the typical discourse organizations of discussion sections -- 8 Preferred text type sequences across research article section boundaries -- 9 Comparing the preferred discourse styles of research journals -- 10 Conclusion -- 8. Vocabulary-based discourse units in university class sessions -- 1 From constructing a corpus of VBDUs to identifying VBDU text-types -- 1.1 Constructing a corpus of VBDUs -- 1.2 Analyzing the linguistic characteristics of VBDUs applying MD analytical techniques -- 1.3 VBDUs and dimension scores: the multi-dimensional profile of the first three VBDUs of a business management class -- 2 Dimension scores and VBDU text-types -- 2.1 Interpreting the clusters as VBDU types based on their linguistic characteristics -- 2.1.1 Cluster 1: Personalized framing -- 2.1.2 Cluster 2: Informational monologue -- 2.1.3 Cluster 3: Contextual interactive -- 2.1.4 Cluster 4: Unmarked -- 3 From VBDU text-types to discourse structure. ; 3.1 Functional interpretation of VBDU types -- 3.2 Text as sequences of VBDU types -- 4 Summary and conclusion -- 9. Conclusion -- 1 Overview -- 2 Comparing the top-down and bottom-up descriptions of biology research articles. -- 2.1 Discourse units in biology research articles -- 2.2 The dimensions of linguistic variation in biology research articles -- 2.3 The functional and linguistic characteristics of the discourse types (move types vs VBDU types) in biology research articles -- 2.4 Description of the typical discourse organization of biology research articles -- 3 Summary and prospects for future research -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2: -- References -- Index -- The series Studies in Corpus Linguistics.
• Sommario/riassunto: Discourse on the Move is the first book-length exploration of how corpus-based methods can be used for discourse analysis, applied to the description of discourse organization. The primary goal is to bring these two analytical perspectives together: undertaking a detailed discourse analysis of each individual text, but doing so in terms that can be generalized across all texts of a corpus. The book explores two major approaches to this task: 'top-down' and 'bottom-up'. In the 'top-down' approach, the functional components of a genre are determined first, and then all texts in a corpus are analyzed in terms of those components. In contrast, textual components emerge from the corpus analysis in the bottom-up approach, and the discourse organization of individual texts is then analyzed in terms of linguistically-defined textual categories. Both approaches are illustrated through case studies of discourse structure in particular genres: fund-raising letters, biology/biochemistry research articles, and university classroom teaching.
• Titolo autorizzato: Discourse on the move
• ISBN: 9786612152566; 9781282152564; 1282152564; 9789027291912; 9027291918
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910972257903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in corpus linguistics ; ; v. 28.