Discourse analysis

Author(s)

• Brown, Gillian
• Yule, George

Bibliographic Information

Discourse analysis

Gillian Brown, George Yule

（Cambridge textbooks in linguistics）

Cambridge University Press, 1983

• : hard
• : pbk

Note

Bibliography: p. 272-283

Includes indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Discourse analysis is a term that has come to have different interpretations for scholars working in different disciplines. For a sociolinguist, it is concerned mainly with the structure of social interaction manifested in conversation; for a psycholinguist, it is primarily concerned with the nature of comprehension of short written texts; for the computational linguist, it is concerned with producing operational models of text-understanding within highly limited contexts. In this textbook, first published in 1983, the authors provide an extensive overview of the many and diverse approaches to the study of discourse, but base their own approach centrally on the discipline which, to varying degrees, is common to them all - linguistics. Using a methodology which has much in common with descriptive linguistics, they offer a lucid and wide-ranging account of how forms of language are used in communication. Their principal concern is to examine how any language produced by man, whether spoken or written, is used to communicate for a purpose in a context.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Transcription conventions
• 1. Introduction: linguistic forms and functions
• 2. The role of context in interpretation
• 3. Topic and the representation of discourse content
• 4. 'Staging' and the representation of discourse structure
• 5. Information structure
• 6. The nature of reference in text and in discourse
• 7. Coherence in the interpretation of discourse
• References
• Subject index
• Author index.

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Details

• NCID: BA0047452X
• ISBN:
  • 0521241448
  • 9780521284752
• LCCN: 82023571
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 288 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : P302
  • DC19 : 401/.41
  • NDC8 : 801
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Discourse analysis
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00215113