Function and Genres: Studies on the Linguistic Features of Discourse Types: 20 (Metalinguistica) - Softcover

 
9783631561997: Function and Genres: Studies on the Linguistic Features of Discourse Types: 20 (Metalinguistica)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3631561997 ISBN 13: 9783631561997
Publisher: Peter Lang AG, 2008

Synopsis

Text is a linguistic unit of communication in which linguistically expressed conceptual units are connected in different conceptual structures. The conceptual construal of things, events and relations is structured on the basis of a variety of cognitive and communicational options. These choices form discourse schemas, partly in a culturespecific way. There is a dynamic relationship between schema and instantiation. The volume approaches these questions from a functional perspective, where the processual nature of discourse is as important as its structural character. The volume has two parts: the first one presents theoretical papers, the second deals with certain discourse types, and some linguistic features that characterize specific discourse types.

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About the Author

The Editor: Gábor Tolcsvai Nagy is Professor of Hungarian Linguistics at Eötvös Loránd University (Hungary). He is the author or editor of 14 books, mainly on discourse (text linguistics), style, literature and Hungarian cognitive grammar, including A Cognitive Theory of Style (2005).

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Publisher
Peter Lang AG
Publication date
2008
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3631561997
ISBN 13 
9783631561997
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
274
Editor
Tolcsvai Nagy Gábor