17.2328, Books: Discourse Analysis: Tanskanen

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From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: Collaborating towards Coherence: Tanskanen 

	
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From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
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Title: Collaborating towards Coherence 
Subtitle: Lexical cohesion in English discourse 
Series Title: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 146  

Publication Year: 2006 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=P%26bns%20146 


Author: Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen, University of Turku

Hardback: ISBN: 9027253897 Pages: 192 Price: U.S. $ 126.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9027253897 Pages: 192 Price: Europe EURO 105.00


Abstract:

This book approaches cohesion and coherence from a perspective of
interaction and collaboration. After a detailed account of various models
of cohesion and coherence, the book suggests that it is fruitful to regard
cohesion as contributing to coherence, as a strategy used by communicators
to help their fellow communicators create coherence from a text. Throughout
the book, the context-sensitive and discourse-specific nature of cohesion
is stressed: cohesive relations are created and interpreted in particular
texts in particular contexts. 

By investigating the use of cohesion in four different types of discourse,
the study shows that cohesion is not uniform across discourse types. The
analysis reveals that written dialogue (computer-mediated discussions) and
spoken monologue (prepared speech) make use of similar cohesive strategies
as spoken dialogue (conversations): in these contexts the communicators'
interaction with their fellow communicators leads to a similar outcome. The
book suggests that this is an indication of the communicators' attempt to
collaborate towards successful communication. 



Table of contents

Acknowledgements   
1 Introduction: cohesion in discourse  1-14  
2 Cohesion, coherence, collaboration  15-29  
3 Building the method of analysis: lexical cohesion relations  31-71  
4 Spoken and written discourse  73-89  
5 The spoken dialogue: face-to-face conversation  91-113  
6 The written dialogue: mailing-list language  115-132  
7 The written monologue: academic writing  133-150  
8 The spoken monologue: prepared speeches  151-162  
9 Lexical cohesion across spoken and written discourse  163-174  
References  175-187  
Index  189-192 



Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis

Subject Language(s): English (eng)


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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