Carlota S. Smith

Modes of Discourse

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This study of discourse modes offers a new fruitful level of analysis.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 697g
• ISBN-13: 9780521781695
• ISBN-10: 0521781698
• Artikelnr.: 22199567

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
Part I. Discourse Structure: 1. Introduction to the discourse modes
2. Discourse modes
3. Text representation and understanding
Part II. Linguistic Analysis of the Discourse Modes: 4. Aspectual information: the entities introduced in discourse
5. Temporal and spatial progression
6. Referring expressions in discourse
Part III. Surface Presentational Factors: Introduction to Part III
7. Subjectivity in texts
8. The contribution of surface presentation
9. Non-canonical structures and presentation
Part IV. Discourse Modes and their Context: 10. Information in text passages
11. Discourse structure and discourse modes
Appendix A. The texts
Appendix B. Glossary.