18.3150, Books: Discipline of Ling/Discourse Analysis: Biber, Connor, Upton

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Title: Discourse on the Move 
Subtitle: Using corpus analysis to describe discourse structure 
Series Title: Studies in Corpus Linguistics 28  

Publication Year: 2007 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=SCL%2028 


Author: Douglas Biber
Author: Ulla Connor
Author: Thomas A. Upton

Hardback: ISBN:  9789027223029 Pages: 305 Price: Europe EURO 105.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027223029 Pages: 305 Price: U.S. $ 142.00


Abstract:

<i>Discourse on the Move</i> 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. 



Linguistic Field(s): Discipline of Linguistics
                     Discourse Analysis
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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