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Discourse topics /
Discourse topics are a frequently mentioned but rarely operationalised concept in linguistics. Taking a text linguistic approach and defining discourse topics as clusterings of concepts, this book examines and compares methods for investigating topic boundaries, topic identification and topic develo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Pragmatics & beyond ;
new ser. v. 269. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Discourse Topics; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; List of figures; List of tables; Glossary of commonly used abbreviations; Introduction; Investigating discourse topics; 1.1 Uses of discourse topics in applied linguistics; 1.2 Defining and operationalising discourse topics; 1.2.1 Connectedness; 1.2.2 Aboutness; 1.2.3 Relevance; 1.2.4 Topics, connectedness, aboutness and relevance; 1.3 Text linguistics; 1.4 A preliminary analysis of discourse topics; 1.5 Data analysed; 1.6 Conclusion; Topic boundaries; 2.1 Problems in identifying topic boundaries.
- 2.2 Signals of topic boundaries2.2.1 Topic-shift markers and phrases; 2.2.2 Lexico-semantic indicators of topic boundaries; 2.2.3 Markedness, phonology and other signals of topic boundaries; 2.3 Identifying topic boundaries in discourse; 2.4 Conclusion; Identifying topics; 3.1 How to express topics; 3.2 Sentence topics and discourse topics; 3.3 Identifying topics in discourse; 3.4 Ways of identifying topics; 3.4.1 Word frequencies for topic identification; 3.4.2 Lexical chaining; 3.4.3 Text-specific hierarchies; 3.4.4 Text-specific networks of associations; 3.4.5 Combining sentence topics.
- 3.5 ConclusionTopic development; 4.1 Typologies of topic development; 4.2 Linguistic features of topic development; 4.3 An exchange structure analysis of topic development; 4.4 Applications of topic development; 4.5 Conclusion; Text linguistic analyses of discourse topics; 5.1 Theme-rheme progression analysis; 5.2 Given-new progression analysis; 5.3 Lexical cohesion analysis; 5.4 Topic-based analysis using relations; 5.4.1. Average distance of a move; 5.4.2 Frequency of moves; 5.4.3 Frequency of coherence breaks; 5.4.4 Recycling of concepts and moves.
- 5.5 Topic-based analysis using associations5.6 Conclusion; Comparing the analyses of discourse topics; 6.1 Triangulation of methods of analysis; 6.2 The location of topic boundaries; 6.3 The topics and topic entities identified; 6.4 The types of topic development; 6.5 Validation of the results of the analyses against human judgments; 6.6 Conclusion; Applying discourse topic analysis; 7.1 Text selection; 7.2 Analysing the texts; 7.3 Text 3: Uses of topics; 7.4 Text 4: Wikitalk; 7.5 Text 5: Satirical sermon; 7.6 Text 6: Anecdote; 7.7 Comparison of methods for Texts 3 to 6.
- 7.8 Comparison of analysis of Texts 3 to 67.9 Text 7: A longer text; 7.10 Conclusion; Implications of discourse topics; 8.1 Topic identification; 8.1.1 Topic-based analysis using relations; 8.2 Topic boundaries; 8.3 Topic development; 8.4 Natural Language Processing applications; 8.5 Other applications of discourse topics; 8.6 Conclusion; Transcription conventions; Text 1: Classroom discourse; Text 2: An inconvenient truth; Text 3: Uses of topics; Text 4: Wikitalk; Text 5: Satirical sermon; Text 6: Anecdote.