Discourse Patterns in Spoken and Written Corpora: 120 (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027253625 ISBN 13: 9789027253620

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2004

Synopsis

This book brings together a number of empirical studies that use corpora to study discourse patterns in speech and writing. It explores new trends in the area of text and discourse characterized by the alliance between text linguistics and areas such as corpus linguistics, genre analysis, literary stylistics and cross-linguistic studies. The contributions to the volume show how established corpora can be used to ask a number of new questions about the interface between speech and writing, the relation between grammar and discourse, academic discourse, cohesive markers, stylistic devices such as metaphor, deixis and non-verbal communication. The corpora used for text-analysis can also be tailor-made for the study of particular genres such as journal article abstracts, lectures, e-mailing list messages, headlines and titles. A recent development is to bring in contrastive data from bilingual corpora to show what is language-specific in the organization of the text.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027253625
• ISBN 13: 9789027253620
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 281
• Editor: Aijmer Karin, Stenström Anna-Brita