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Discourse description : diverse linguistic analyses of a fund-raising text /

Discourse Description presents in one convenient volume a variety of approaches to text description that have been proposed in the linguistic literature in the last decade or so. The book is organized to make it easy to understand and compare the various approaches. Since all of the researchers are...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Mann, William C., Thompson, Sandra A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1992.
Colección:Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 16.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Text as purposive communication : a meaning-based analysis / Kathleen Callow and John C. Callow
  • Rhetorical structure theory and text analysis / William C. Mann, Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen and Sandra A. Thompson
  • An analysis of a plea for money / Bonnie J.F. Meyer
  • The discourse strategy of an appeals letter / Robert E. Longacre
  • The notion of unspecific versus specific as one way of analysing the information of a fund-raising letter / Eugene Winter
  • An integrated three-pronged analysis of a fund-raising letter / Michael P. Jordan
  • How I understand a text, via the structure of the happenings and the telling of them / Evelyn G. Pike
  • The flow of ideas in a sample of written language / Wallace Chafe
  • The ZPG letter : subjects, definiteness, and information-status / Ellen F. Prince
  • Some lexicogrammatical features of the zero population growth text / M.A.K. Halliday.
  • Macro-proposals : meaning by degree / J.R. Martin
  • Collocation and field of discourse / James D. Benson and William S. Greaves.