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

Nystrand, Martin

 
9780125234825: The Structure of Written Communication: Studies in Reciprocity between Writers and Readers
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0125234821 ISBN 13: 9780125234825
Publisher: Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc, 1986

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.

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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.

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Publisher
Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Publication date
1986
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0125234821
ISBN 13 
9780125234825
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
248