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Advances in written text analysis

Title
Advances in written text analysis / edited by Malcolm Coulthard.
Publication
London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.

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Additional Authors
Coulthard, Malcolm.
Description
xii, 320 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Summary
This work provides an overview of approaches to written text analysis, including both classic and commissioned papers which share a common linguistic framework. The examples used range from pure science, social science and periodicals to literary narratives.
Subject
  • Discourse analysis
  • Written communication
  • Tekstanalyse
  • Critique textuelle
  • Analyse du discours
  • Communication écrite
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-320).
Contents
  • On analysing and evaluating written text / Malcolm Coulthard -- Trust the text / John McH. Sinclair -- Signalling in discourse : a functional analysis of a common discourse pattern in written and spoken English / Michael Hoey -- Clause relations as information structure : two basic text structures in English / Eugene Winter -- Predictive categories in expository text / Angele Tadros -- Labelling discourse : an aspect of nominal-group lexical cohesion / Gill Francis -- The text and its message / Tim Johns -- The analysis of fixed expressions in text / Rosamund Moon -- The construction of knowledge and value in the grammar of scientific discourse, with reference to Charles Darwin's The Origins of Species / M.A.K. Halliday.
  • Frames of reference : contextual monitoring and the interpretation of narrative discourse / Catherine Emmott -- Inferences in discourse comprehension / Martha Shiro -- Narratives of science and nature in popularizing molecular genetics / Greg Myers -- Evaluation and organization in a sample of written academic discourse / Susan Hunston -- Genre analysis : an approach to text analysis for ESP / Tony Dudley-Evans -- On theme, rheme and discourse goals / Peter H. Fries.
  • Negatives in written text / Adriana Pagano -- It, this and that / Michael McCarthy -- The structure of newspaper editorials / Adriana Bolívar -- On reporting reporting : the representation of speech in factual and factional narratives / Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard.
ISBN
  • 0041505190
  • 9780041505191
  • 0415095204
  • 9780415095204
  • 0415095190
  • 9780415095198
  • 0203422651
  • 9780203422656
LCCN
93025182
OCLC
  • ocm28254708
  • 28254708
  • SCSB-2017771
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library