New book on Nordic text linguistics and discourse analysis

[Wenche Vagle]

New book announcement:

New Directions in Nordic Text Linguistics and Discourse Analysis:
Methodological Issues
Edited by Wenche Vagle and Kay Wikberg
Oslo: Novus
ISBN: 82-7099-333-6
Price in Euro: 32.20 (Price in NOK: 264.00)
Fax order form to be found at www.novus.no/pages/fax.html

This volume is a collection of papers based on the presentations
given at the NordText Conference that was held at the University of
Oslo in January 2000. The papers focus on recent methodological
developments within text linguistics and discourse analysis - mainly
as reflected in the Nordic countries. Some of the papers discuss
important text-linguistic and discourse-theoretical issues such as
the widening scope of the discourse concept, the semantic constraints
of discourse connectives, and central terms such as discourse
communities, parallel texts, superstructure and polyphony. Others
deal with the empirical application of discourse-analytical methods -
some of them multidisciplinary - in the study of for instance
multimodal discourse, media discourse, subject-oriented prose, school
texts and writing skills, discourse in professional settings,
simultaneous interpretation, genre variation and evolution, as well
as contrastive issues and quantitative text patterns.

Table of contents
Especially invited contributions
Corinne Rossari:	Pragmatic Links and Semantic Impact of
Discourse Connectives
Jan Svensson:	Non-literary prose in Sweden: Reflections on a
multi-disciplinary approach
Stig Johansson:	Grammar Across Speech and Writing

Discussion of Concepts
Kjersti Breivega:	Mot ei lingvistisk forankring av superstrukturomgrepet?
Finn Frandsen:	What Do Members of Discourse Communities Have in Common?
Sigmund Kvam:	Parallel Texts, Translation and Contrastive
Textology: Some Theoretical Considerations

Developments in methodology
Trine Dahl:	Text evaluation methods: the case of
computer-generated summaries
Anne Marie Bülow-Möller:	Using textlinguistic methodologies
for analysing processing in simultaneous interpretation
Kjersti Fløttum:	Linguistic and literary polyphony - some
methodological questions
Francoise Sullet-Nylander:	Reported speech in French media discourse

Multimedia discourse
Anna-Malin Karlsson:	Analysing the multimodality of writing. A
model and a method applied to personal homepages
Winni Johansen:	Semantic Isotopy and the Analysis of Polysemiotic Texts
Pentti Haddington:	Applying theories, doing Praxis:
Methodological problems in studying the textual accessibility of
baby-food labels
Rowena Jansson:	Metadiscourse - Bridging the gap

School texts and writing skills
Per Ledin:	To put a full stop: The use of the sentence in
children's compositions
Catharina Nyström:	Reference cohesion in school-texts. In search
of a method of analysis
Åsa Wengelin:	Investigating writing strategies - how do spelling
difficulties influence text production?
Eva Östlund-Stjärnegårdh: What texts pass the national test in Swedish?

Discourse in professional settings
Salli Kankaanpää:	From letters to news reports. Diachronic
changes in Finnish municipal press releases 1979 - 1999
Inger Ruin:	Non-finite versus finite constructions - a problem in
the translation of Swedish literary texts into English?
Jesper Hermann:	Understandings between doctors and patients - some
methodological issues

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wenche.vagle at inl.uio.no


Wenche Vagle
Forsker/researcher

Institutt for nordistikk og litteraturvitenskap
Universitetet i Oslo
Postboks 1013, Blindern
0315 Oslo
Tlf: 22 85 69 74
Faks: 22 85 71 00

Department of Scandinavian Studies and Comparative Literature
University of Oslo
P.O. Box 1013, Blindern
N - 0315 Oslo
Norway
Phone: (+47) 22 85 69 74
Fax: (+47) 22 85 71 00
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