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Title: Discourse on the Move: Using corpus analysis to describe discourse structure (Studies in Corpus Linguistics)
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company (edition 28)
Publication Date: 2007
Language: English
ISBN 10: 9027223025
ISBN 13: 9789027223029
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 28.
Condition: Good

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Discourse on the Move is the first book-length exploration of how corpus-based methods can be used for discourse analysis, applied to the description of discourse organization. The primary goal is to bring these two analytical perspectives together: undertaking a detailed discourse analysis of each individual text, but doing so in terms that can be generalized across all texts of a corpus. The book explores two major approaches to this task: ‘top-down’ and ‘bottom-up’. In the ‘top-down’ approach, the functional components of a genre are determined first, and then all texts in a corpus are analyzed in terms of those components. In contrast, textual components emerge from the corpus analysis in the bottom-up approach, and the discourse organization of individual texts is then analyzed in terms of linguistically-defined textual categories. Both approaches are illustrated through case studies of discourse structure in particular genres: fund-raising letters, biology/biochemistry research articles, and university classroom teaching.

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This collaboration examines approaches to the study if discourse structure and organization from a corpus perspective. The authors (with contributors) begin by defining both discourse analysis and corpus linguistics, describing both top-down and bottom-up approaches, then elaborate on top-down analysis to introduce move analysis, identify and analy

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