The Structure of Written Communication: Studies in Reciprocity between Writers and Readers - Hardcover

Nystrand, Martin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0125234821 ISBN 13: 9780125234825

Publisher: Academic Press, 1986

Synopsis

This book transcends current research on writing by relating written text to the cognitive and social processes that create and change it.

Key Features
* Reciprocity as a principle of discourse
* Language development as socialization
* Context, explicitness, genre, topic, and comment as concepts in discourse analysis
* Writing and reading as social processes

About this title

Review:

"Stimulating, provocative, wide-ranging. Nystrand appropriately describes this as 'an ideas book' and readers hungry for insights into the processes of writing are provided with a feast."
--APPLIED PSYCHOLINGUSTICS
"We regard The Structure of Written Communication as an excitingly ambitious attempt--perhaps the most exciting and the most ambitious to appear to date-to give us a vocabulary and a grounding principle for talking about the complex interactions among the textual, contextual, and ideational components that allow writers and readers to communicate through written language."
--Stephen P. Witte and David Elias in STYLE

Synopsis:

This book transcends current research on writing by relating written text to the cognitive and social processes that create and change it. It includes key features such as: reciprocity as a principle of discourse; language development as socialization; context, explicitness, genre, topic, and comment as concepts in discourse analysis; and writing and reading as social processes.

About this edition

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0125234821
• ISBN 13: 9780125234825
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 234