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Discourse on the move : using corpus analysis to describe discourse structure /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Biber, Douglas
Other Authors: Connor, Ulla, 1948-, Upton, Thomas A. (Thomas Albin)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2007.
Series:Studies in corpus linguistics ; v. 28.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Discourse on the Move; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface; 1. Discourse analysis and corpus linguistics; Part I. Top-down analyses of discourse organization; 2. Introduction to move analysis; 3. Identifying and analyzing rhetorical moves in philanthropic discourse; 4. Rhetorical moves in biochemistry research articles; 5. Rhetorical appeals in fundraising; Part II. Bottom-up analyses of discourse organization; 6. Introduction to the identification and analysis of vocabulary-based discourse units; 7. Vocabulary-based discourse units in biology research articles.