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Book Discourse and Literature

Download or read book Discourse and Literature written by Teun A. van Dijk and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discourse and Literature boldly integrates the analysis of literature and non-literary genres in an innovative embracing study of discourse. Narrative, poetry, drama, myths, songs, letters, Biblical discourse and graffiti as well as stylistics and rhetorics are the topics treaded by twelve well-known specialists selected and introduced by Teun A. van Dijk.

Book Discourse and Literature

Download or read book Discourse and Literature written by Teun Adrianus van Dijk and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Discourse and Literature "boldly integrates the analysis of literature and non-literary genres in an innovative embracing study of discourse. Narrative, poetry, drama, myths, songs, letters, Biblical discourse and graffiti as well as stylistics and rhetorics are the topics treaded by twelve well-known specialists selected and introduced by Teun A. van Dijk.

Book Text and Discourse Analysis

Download or read book Text and Discourse Analysis written by Raphael Salkie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-11-22 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical, `user-friendly' guide to the issues and methods associated with text and discourse analysis. Text and Discourse Analysis: * examines a wide variety of authentic texts including news stories, adverts, novels, official forms, instruction manuals and textbooks * contains numerous practical activities * looks at a range of cohesive devices * concludes by looking at larger patterns in texts, a set of further exercises and a guide for further reading * provides a hands-on guide to an area of growing importance in language study.

Book Methods of Text and Discourse Analysis

Download or read book Methods of Text and Discourse Analysis written by Stefan Titscher and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2000-07-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ′This volume is the most comprehensive overview to date of sociologically orientated approaches to text and discourse analysis and is worth reading even for those who are interested only in purely linguistiv approaches to text and discourse. Its main merit, I think, is that it intorduces approaches which up to now have hardley been admitted into the universe of scientific discourse′ - Discourse Studies Methods of Text and Discourse Analysis provides the most comprehensive overview currently available of linguistic and sociological approaches to text and discourse analysis. Among the 10 linguistic and sociological models surveyed in this book some of the more important are Grounded Theory, Content Analysis, Conversation Analysis and Critical Discourse Analysis. The book presents each approach according to a standardised format, which allows for direct systematic comparisons. The fully annotated lists of sources provide readers with an additional means of evaluation of the competing analytical methods. Interdisciplinary and international in its aims, Methods of Text and Discourse Analysis suggests the benefits both linguists and sociologists will derive from a more intimate knowledge of each others′ methods and procedures.

Book Literature as Social Discourse

Download or read book Literature as Social Discourse written by Roger Fowler and published by B. T. Batsford Limited. This book was released on 1981 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Literary Discourse

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  • Author : Jørgen Dines Johansen
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2002-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780802035776
  • Pages : 520 pages

Download or read book Literary Discourse written by Jørgen Dines Johansen and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the semiotic theory of American philosopher Charles S. Peirce, Johansen applies psychoanalysis, psychology, literary hermeneutics, literary history, Habermasian communication, and discourse theory to literature, and, in the process, redefines it.

Book Doing Discourse Analysis

Download or read book Doing Discourse Analysis written by Linda A. Wood and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2000-05-11 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Providing both the practical steps for doing discourse analysis and the theoretical justifications for these steps, this book is for students and researchers undertaking discourse analysis."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Language  Discourse and Literature

Download or read book Language Discourse and Literature written by Ronald Carter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection shows students of English and applied linguistics ways in which language and literary study can be integrated. By drawing on a wide range of texts by mainly British and American writers, from a variety of different periods, the contributors show how discourse stylistics can provide models for the systematic description of, for example, dialogue in fiction; language of drama and balladic poetry; speech presentation; the interactive properties of metre; the communicative context of author/reader. Among the texts examined are novels, poetry and drama by major twentieth-century writers such as Joyce, Auden, Pinter and Hopkins, as well as examples from Shakespeare, Donne and Milton. Each chapter has a wide range of exercises for practical analysis, an extensive glossary and a comprehensive bibliography with suggestions for further reading. The book will be particularly useful to undergraduate students of English and applied linguistics and advanced students of modern languages or English as a foreign language.

Book Discourse Analysis of Biblical Literature

Download or read book Discourse Analysis of Biblical Literature written by Walter Ray Bodine and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In committing themselves to the study of texts, linguists have taken a long stride in a literary direction. As discourse analysis brings the tools of linguistic analysis to bear on stretches of material larger than the sentence, they come into close contact with the artistry of literature. In the last third of this century, scholars of the Hebrew Bible are gravitating in the same direction. Perhaps even more consciously, they are studying their texts as literature. Cross-pollination between these two groups is now in order. The present volume is intended to help that happen. It originates with biblical scholars and is addressed to our colleagues. Its purpose is to introduce to them the developing field of linguistics known as discourse analysis. In addition to students of the Hebrew Bible, those who study ancient Near Eastern literatures, the New Testament, and early Jewish writings should find the following essays immediately relevant. Students of literatures from other times and areas should also be able to benefit because of the pervasive emphasis on methodology. - Preface.

Book An Introduction to Discourse Analysis

Download or read book An Introduction to Discourse Analysis written by James Paul Gee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discourse analysis considers how language, both spoken and written, enacts social and cultural perspectives and identities. Assuming no prior knowledge of linguistics, An Introduction to Discourse Analysis examines the field and presents James Paul Gee’s unique integrated approach which incorporates both a theory of language-in-use and a method of research. An Introduction to Discourse Analysis can be used as a stand-alone textbook or ideally used in conjunction with the practical companion title How to do Discourse Analysis: A Toolkit. Together they provide the complete resource for students studying discourse analysis. Updated throughout, the fourth edition of this seminal textbook also includes two new chapters: ‘What is Discourse?’ to further understanding of the topic, as well as a new concluding section. A new companion website www.routledge.com/cw/gee features a frequently asked questions section, additional tasks to support understanding, a glossary and free access to journal articles by James Paul Gee. Clearly structured and written in a highly accessible style, An Introduction to Discourse Analysis includes perspectives from a variety of approaches and disciplines, including applied linguistics, education, psychology, anthropology and communication to help students and scholars from a range of backgrounds to formulate their own views on discourse and engage in their own discourse analysis. This is an essential textbook for all advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of discourse analysis.

Book Discourse Analysis

Download or read book Discourse Analysis written by Gillian Brown and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1983-07-28 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of how any language produced by man, spoken or written, is used to communicate for a purpose and within a context.

Book Discourse and Literature

Download or read book Discourse and Literature written by Guy Cook and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acknowledgements Introduction PART ONE 1. A basis for analysis: schema theory, its general principles, history and terminology Introduction Schema theory: general principles Examples demonstrating schemata in discourse processing Evidence for schemata World schemata and text schemata The origins of schema theory Bartlett's Remembering The eclipse of schema theory The revival of schema theory The terminology of schema theory Notes 2. A first bearing: discourse analysis and its limitations Introduction 'Text', 'context', and 'discourse' Acceptability above the sentence Cohesion The omission fallacy Meaning as encoding/decoding versus meaning as construction Pragmatic approaches and their capacity to characterize 'literariness' Macro-functions Discourse structure Discourse as process (and literature as conversation) Discourse as dialogue The 'post-scientific' approach Conclusion Notes 3. A second bearing: AI text theory and its limitations Introduction The computational and brain paradigms of language The constructivist principle One system of conceptual construction: conceptual dependency theory (CD) Problems for conceptual constructions A complex AI schema theory Conclusion Notes 4. Testing the AI approach. Two analyses: a 'literary' and a 'non-literary' text Introduction Text One: the opening of 'Crime and Punishment' (translation) Text Two: 'Every cloud has a Silver Lining' (advertisement) Conclusions from analyses Notes 5. A third bearing: literary theories from formalism to stylistics Introduction The rise of 'modern literary theory' Theories of pattern and deviation The formalist theory of defamiliarization Patterns in discourse: structures and structuralism Roman Jakobson's poetics Conclusion Notes 6. Incorporating the reader: two analyses combining stylistics and schema theory Introduction Text Three: 'Elizabeth Taylor's Passion' (advertisement) Text Four: 'First World War Poets' (poem) Incorporating the reader Notes PART TWO 7. Theory of discourse deviation: schema refreshment and cognitive change Introduction: the argument so far The need for schema change Prelude to the theory: earlier accounts of schema change A theory of literary discourse: schema refreshment and cognitive change A theory of literary discourse: discourse deviation Defamiliarization revisited Notes 8. Application of the theory: discourse deviation in three literary texts Introduction Text Five: 'The Tyger' Text Six: 'The Turn of the Screw' Text Seven: 'The Windhover' Conclusion Notes 9. What the theory means for literature teaching Appendix A: Grammatical notation: symbols and abbreviations Appendix B: Conceptual dependency (CD) and semantics Bibliography Index Acknowledgements Introduction PART ONE 1. A basis for analysis: schema theory, its general principles, history and terminology Introduction Schema theory: general principles Examples demonstrating schemata in discourse processing Evidence for schemata

Book Approaches to Discourse Analysis

Download or read book Approaches to Discourse Analysis written by Cynthia Gordon and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approaches to Discourse Analysis demonstrates the importance of the diverse perspectives that various approaches to discourse bring to bear on human communication. Linguists and other readers interested in the interplay of language and culture will gain new insight and understanding from this rich compilation.

Book How to Do Critical Discourse Analysis

Download or read book How to Do Critical Discourse Analysis written by David Machin and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2012-08-16 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How great to have this practical introduction to doing critical discourse analysis, especially one that provides examples of multimodal discourse analysis. Extremely useful for students who need tools for the study of text, talk and images." - Teun van Dijk, Pompeu Fabra University "The authors have truly achieved the impossible: to make extremely complex phenomena accessible for students and scholars alike. Thus, this textbook will provide a most helpful guide when looking for adequate ways to grasp and analyze the intricate interdependence of written, oral and visual forms of semiosis." - Ruth Wodak, Lancaster University How do media texts manipulate and persuade us? How do language and images play out the ideas, values and identities? This book shows readers exactly how language, power and ideology are negotiated in media texts, from magazine and advertising, to YouTube and music videos. Presenting a systematic toolkit of theories, concepts and techniques for doing language and image analysis, students learn how to dig deep into discourses and the media landscape. With case studies and examples from a range of traditional and new media content, the book equips students to understand the relationship between language, discourse and social practices.

Book Methods of Critical Discourse Analysis

Download or read book Methods of Critical Discourse Analysis written by Ruth Wodak and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2001 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is designed as an introduction to Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and gives an overview of the various theories and methods associated with this sociolinguistic approach. It also introduces the reader to the leading figures in CDA and the methods to which they are most closely related. The text aims to provide a comprehensive description of the individual methods, an understanding of the theories to which methods refer and a comparative treatment of each of these methods so that students may be able to determine which is the most appropriate to select for their particular research question. Given the balance between theory and application, plus the intended audience - no previous knowledge of CDA is assumed - Methods of Critical Discourse Analysis should be useful reading for both students and researchers in the fields of linguistics, sociology, social psychology and the social sciences in general.

Book Point of View  Routledge Revivals

Download or read book Point of View Routledge Revivals written by Susan L. Ehrlich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of Point of View, first published in 1990, is twofold: from the perspective of linguistics, to analyse the discourse structure of texts; from the perspective of literary studies, to explain certain non-linguistic aspects of the texts in terms of linguistic form. This study therefore aims to provide a balanced and sufficiently comprehensive account of the relationship between linguistic form and point of view. It will be of particular value to literature students with an interest in linguistics, and literary style.

Book Discourse Analysis and Dramatic Literature

Download or read book Discourse Analysis and Dramatic Literature written by Amechi Akwanya and published by Acena Publishers. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: