Author : Tzvetan Todorov
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 27,37 MB
Release : 1990-08-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521349994
A translation of recent essays by the eminent literary critic, Tzvelan Todorov.
Author : Todorov Tzvetan
Publisher :
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 49,84 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Discourse analysis
ISBN :
This is a collection in translation of recent essays by Tzvetan Todorov, one of the most eminent of today's literary critics. The essays concentrate on the idea of genre, literary or otherwise, and asks such questions as: What is literature? What is genre? Which are the major literary genres? In the first section, Todorov proposes definitions for the notions of literature, discourse, and genre. Following is a general discussion of the two principal literary genres, fiction and poetry. Finally, in the third section of essays, Todorov examines individual authors as case studies: among them Poe, Dostoyevsky, Baudelaire, Conrad, and James.
Author : Vijay Kumar Bhatia
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 13,49 MB
Release : 2004-06-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780826454454
This book extends the scope and coverage of genre theory, giving more emphasis to what is known as pragmatic space; in other words it integrates the study of discourse at the textual level with the study of how that discourse operates in its social context.
Author : Klaus P. Schneider
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 30,71 MB
Release : 2014-06-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110375028
Discourse is language as it occurs, in any form or context, beyond the speech act. It may be written or spoken, monological or dialogical, but there is always a communicative aim or purpose. The present volume provides systematic orientation in the vast field of studying discourse from a pragmatic perspective. It first gives an overview of a range of approaches developed for the analysis of discourse, including, among others, conversation analysis, systemic-functional analysis, genre analysis, critical discourse analysis, corpus-driven approaches and multimodal analysis. The focus is furthermore on functional units in discourse, such as discourse markers, moves, speech act sequences, discourse phases and silence. The final section of the volume examines discourse types and domains, providing a taxonomy of discourse types and focusing on a range of discourse domains, e.g. classroom discourse, medical discourse, legal discourse, electronic discourse. Each article surveys the current state of the art of the respective topic area while also presenting new research findings.
Author : Giuliana Garzone
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,76 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1612337201
This volume features representative studies focusing on the evolution of text genres in corporate and professional communication. Genre change is explored in various contexts in light of the increasing importance of new media and the profound social changes that have occurred in the last few decades. Major theoretical issues are raised and discussed, highlighting the need to reconsider the repertoire of conventions traditionally identified in each specific genre, and to reassess and update the analytical tools used to investigate them, about three decades after the emergence of genre analysis.
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Page : 52 pages
File Size : 31,23 MB
Release : 1988
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Author : Teun A. van Dijk
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 42,20 MB
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 902727973X
Discourse and Literature boldly integrates the analysis of literature and non-literary genres in an innovative embracing study of discourse. Narrative, poetry, drama, myths, songs, letters, Biblical discourse and graffiti as well as stylistics and rhetorics are the topics treaded by twelve well-known specialists selected and introduced by Teun A. van Dijk.
Author : Marie-Aude Lefer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 14,67 MB
Release : 2016-07-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027266808
This volume contributes to filling a gap in corpus-based research by investigating the ways in which linguistic features vary across genres/registers cross-linguistically. It brings together insightful chapters by leading scholars in the field, fruitfully exploiting genre- or register-controlled multilingual parallel and comparable corpora to: (i) problematize cross-register variation in a multilingual perspective, (ii) address methodological and theoretical issues raised by register-oriented contrastive and translation studies, (iii) investigate the cross-linguistic and cross-genre variation of specific linguistic features, such as lexical bundles, sentence-initial adverbials and tag questions, (iv) identify cross-cultural and cross-linguistic dissimilarities in expressing a functional category, viz. Appraisal, in the field of opinion mining. The book offers new cutting-edge research that should be of interest to specialists in contrastive linguistics, translation studies and cross-cultural studies. Originally published as a special issue of Languages in Contrast 14:1 (2014).
Author : Anna Trosborg
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 16,80 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027250898
An understanding of genres in communication (written and spoken) is essential to professional success. This volume studies situationally appropriate responses in professional communication in face-to-face interaction and distance communication, from a socio-cognitive point of view. A traditional rhetorical approach does not give much insight in the ways in which genres are embedded in communicative activity or how actors draw upon genre knowledge to perform effectively. However, if genres are considered as embedded in social interaction as typified forms of typified circumstances, the rich dynamic aspects of genre knowledge can be disclosed. The chapters deal with genre knowledge in various settings, illustrating the impact of time, place, medium, skills and purpose, and some chapters deal with genre analysis in a broader sense giving ideas for applied genre analysis. The book is of interest to professionals and scholars in communication studies, discourse analysis, and social and cognitive science.
Author : Karin Aijmer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 46,8 MB
Release : 2017-03-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3319545566
This volume will give readers insight into how genres are characterised by the patterns of frequency and distribution of linguistic features across a number of European languages. The material presented in this book will also stimulate further corpus-based contrastive research including more languages, more genres and different types of corpora. This is the first special issue of the Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics, a publication that addresses the interface between the two disciplines and offers a platform to scholars who combine both methodologies to present rigorous and interdisciplinary findings about language in real use. Corpus linguistics and Pragmatics have traditionally represented two paths of scientific thought, parallel but often mutually exclusive and excluding. Corpus Linguistics can offer a meticulous methodology based on mathematics and statistics, while Pragmatics is characterized by its effort in the interpretation of intended meaning in real language.
