Macrostructures: An Interdisciplinary Study of Global Structures in Discourse, Interaction, and Cognition: 16 (Psychology Library Editions: Personality) - Hardcover

Van Dijk, Teun A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0367112442 ISBN 13: 9780367112448

Publisher: Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

Macrostructures are higher-level semantic or conceptual structures that organize the ‘local’ microstructures of discourse, interaction, and their cognitive processing. They are distinguished from other global structures of a more schematic nature, which we call superstructures. Originally published in 1980, the theory of macrostructures outlined in this book is the result of research carried out during the previous 10 years in the domains of literary theory, text grammar, the general theory of discourse, pragmatics, and the cognitive psychology of discourse processing. The presentation of the theory is systematic but informal and at this stage was not intended to be fully formalized.

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Teun A. van Dijk, University of Amsterdam, Dept of General Literary Studies, Section of Discourse Studies.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367112442
• ISBN 13: 9780367112448
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 332