New Foundations for a Science of Text and Discourse: Cognition, Communication, and the Freedom of Access to Knowledge and Society: 61 (New Directions in Computers and Composition Studies) - Softcover

Beaugrande, Robert De

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1567502792 ISBN 13: 9781567502794

Publisher: Praeger Publishers Inc, 1997

Synopsis

A magnum opus in the now vast domain of discourse studies, whose history, methods, and subdomains mobody knows as well as Robert de Beugrande. No other book in the humanities and social sciences today integrates such encylopedic knowledge into a thoroughly transdisciplinary, international, intercultural, and critical program. For all advanced students of discourse, this book should be their major mentor, guide, and compendium of research. -Teun A. van Dijk, University of Amsterdam and Editor of the journals Text and Discourse and Society - Professor de Beugrande has been one of the most influential scholars in text linguistics since he helped to found it as a discipline. He commands a large panorama of knowledge and brings this learning to bear on a variety of topics, giving fresh insights and new dimensions. In his latest book, he ranges over linguistic, educational, and cultural disciplines in order to synthesize an important framework within which text and discourse can be understood in new ways. -John Sinclair, Birmingham University and Editor-in-Chief of Collins COBUILD English Language Dictionary

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Synopsis

This volume makes the case for the founding of a new science of text and discourse, in the context of contributions from communication and cognitive science and the paramount concept of freedom of access to information, knowledge and society. It is part of a series which provides a forum for the cross-fertilization of ideas from diverse disciplines that share a mutual interest in discourse. A variety of approaches to the topic are represented: sociolinguistics; psycholinguistics; ethnomethodology and the study of language; educational psychology; and computational linguistics.

Edition details

• Publisher: Praeger Publishers Inc
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1567502792
• ISBN 13: 9781567502794
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 670