Discourse on the Move: Using Corpus Analysis to Describe Discourse Structure

Biber, Douglas/ Connor, Ulla/ Upton, Thomas A.

ISBN 10: 9027223025 / ISBN 13: 9789027223029

Verlag: John Benjamins Pub Co, 2007

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28 edition. 289 pages. 9.75x6.50x1.00 inches. In Stock. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers __9027223025

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Titel: Discourse on the Move: Using Corpus Analysis...

Verlag: John Benjamins Pub Co

Erscheinungsdatum: 2007

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Brand New

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Book by Biber Prof Dr Douglas Connor Ulla Upton Thomas A

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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 individual text, but doing so in terms that can be generalized across all texts of a corpus. The book explores two major approaches to this task: ‘top-down’ and ‘bottom-up’. In the ‘top-down’ approach, the functional components of a genre are determined first, and then all texts in a corpus are analyzed in terms of those components. In contrast, textual components emerge from the corpus analysis in the bottom-up approach, and the discourse organization of individual texts is then analyzed in terms of linguistically-defined textual categories. Both approaches are illustrated through case studies of discourse structure in particular genres: fund-raising letters, biology/biochemistry research articles, and university classroom teaching.