Toward a Grammar of Passages (Studies in Writing and Rhetoric) - Softcover

Coe, Richard M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0809314207 ISBN 13: 9780809314201

Verlag: Southern Illinois University Press, 1987

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Richard M. Coe has developed such a “grammar,” one which uses a simple graphic instrument to analyze the meaningful relationships between sentences in a passage and to clarify the function of structure in discourse. Working in the tradition of Christensen’s generative rhetoric, Coe presents a two-dimensional graphic matrix that effectively analyzes the logical relations between statements by mapping coordinate, subordinate, and superordinate relationships.

Coe demonstrates the power of his discourse matrix by applying it to a variety of significant problems, such as how to demonstrate discourse differences between cultures (especially between Chinese and English), how to explain precisely what is “bad” about the structure of passages that do not work, and how best to teach structure. This new view of the structure of passages helps to articulate crucial questions about the relations between form and function, language, thought and culture, cognitive and social processes.

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Richard M. Coe is Professor of English at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.

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• Verlag: Southern Illinois University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1987
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0809314207
• ISBN 13: 9780809314201
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 123
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