Discourse On The Move

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Discourse on the Move

Discourse on the Move
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Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages : 312
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ISBN-10 : 9027223025
ISBN-13 : 9789027223029
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Book Synopsis Discourse on the Move by : Douglas Biber

Download or read book Discourse on the Move written by Douglas Biber and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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