Understanding Text And Discourse
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Understanding Text And Discourse
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Author : Jan-Ola Ostman
language : en
Publisher: Hodder Education
Release Date : 2000
Understanding Text And Discourse written by Jan-Ola Ostman and has been published by Hodder Education this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Discourse analysis categories.
The study of discourse, both in its written and spoken forms, is of growing interest across a number of disciplines, including linguistics, psychology, literary studies and anthropology. Discourse is defined as anything that extends beyond the boundaries of one sentence or utterance. It is the structure of discourse that is the focus of this text. The authors take a broad approach to the subject, and look at discourse from many perspectives, including those of text linguistics, discourse analysis, and conversation analysis. The book is divided into sections which examine the different types of methodological approaches to discourse. Each section contains at least one real-life text/piece of discourse to be used as the data source through which concepts and theories can be illustrated. Discourse analysis is an increasingly interdisciplinary field with different disciplines approaching the subject in different ways. This book presents the basics of these different approaches to analyzing text and discourse within a linguistics context.
Models Of Understanding Text
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Author : Bruce K. Britton
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2014-02-25
Models Of Understanding Text written by Bruce K. Britton and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-25 with Psychology categories.
What is text understanding? It is the dynamic process of constructing coherent representations and inferences at multiple levels of text and context, within the bottleneck of a limited-capacity working memory. The field of text and discourse has advanced to the point where researchers have developed sophisticated models of comprehension, and identified the particular assumptions that underlie comprehension mechanisms in precise analytical or mathematical detail. The models offer a priori predictions about thought and behavior, not merely ad hoc descriptions of data. Indeed, the field has evolved to a mature science. The contributors to this volume collectively cover the major models of comprehension in the field of text and discourse. Other books are either narrow -- covering only a single theoretical framework -- or do not focus on systematic modeling efforts. In addition, this book focuses on deep levels of understanding rather than language codes, syntax, and other shallower levels of text analysis. As such, it provides readers with up-to-date information on current psychological models specified in quantitative or analytical detail.
Frames Of Understanding In Text And Discourse
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Author : Alexander Ziem
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2014-10-15
Frames Of Understanding In Text And Discourse written by Alexander Ziem and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
How do words mean? What is the nature of meaning? How can we grasp a word’s meaning? The frame-semantic approach developed in this book offers some well-founded answers to such long-standing, but still controversial issues. Following Charles Fillmore’s definition of frames as both organizers of experience and tools for understanding, the monograph attempts to examine one of the most important concepts of Cognitive Linguistics in more detail. The point of departure is Fillmore’s conception of “frames of understanding” – an approach to (cognitive) semantics that Fillmore developed from 1975 to 1985. The envisaged Understanding Semantics (“U-Semantics”) is a semantic theory sui generis whose significance for linguistic research cannot be overestimated. In addition to its crucial role in the development of the theoretical foundations of U-semantics, corpus-based frame semantics can be applied fruitfully in the investigation of knowledge-building processes in text and discourse.
Text Discourse And Process
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Author : Robert De Beaugrande
language : en
Publisher: Greenwood
Release Date : 1980
Text Discourse And Process written by Robert De Beaugrande and has been published by Greenwood this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Analyzing Text And Discourse
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Author : Kristina Boréus
language : en
Publisher: SAGE
Release Date : 2017-02-16
Analyzing Text And Discourse written by Kristina Boréus and has been published by SAGE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-16 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Clearly setting out the advantages and disadvantages of each methodology, and providing real-world examples of when the methodology has been used successfully, this introduction makes it easy for students to assess which approach would be best for their research and to implement it successfully.
Talking Texts
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Author : Rosalind Horowitz
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-09-25
Talking Texts written by Rosalind Horowitz and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-25 with Education categories.
This volume examines how oral and written language function in school learning , and how oral texts can be successfully inter-connected to the written texts that are used on a daily basis in schools. Rather than argue for the prominence of one over the other, the goal is to help the reader gain a rich understanding of how both might work together to create a new discourse that ultimately creates new knowledge. Talking Texts: Provides historical background for the study of talk and text Presents examples of children’s and adolescents’ natural conversations as analyzed by linguists Addresses talk as it interfaces with domains of knowledge taught in schools to show how talk is related to and may be influenced by the structure, language, and activities of a specific discipline. Bringing together seminal lines of research to create a cohesive picture of discourse issues germane to classrooms and other learning settings, this volume is an essential resource for researchers, graduate students, classroom teachers, and curriculum specialists across the fields of discourse studies, literacy and English education, composition studies, language development, sociolinguistics, and applied linguistics.
Methods Of Text And Discourse Analysis
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Author : Stefan Titscher
language : en
Publisher: SAGE
Release Date : 2000-07-26
Methods Of Text And Discourse Analysis written by Stefan Titscher and has been published by SAGE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-07-26 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
′This volume is the most comprehensive overview to date of sociologically orientated approaches to text and discourse analysis and is worth reading even for those who are interested only in purely linguistiv approaches to text and discourse. Its main merit, I think, is that it intorduces approaches which up to now have hardley been admitted into the universe of scientific discourse′ - Discourse Studies Methods of Text and Discourse Analysis provides the most comprehensive overview currently available of linguistic and sociological approaches to text and discourse analysis. Among the 10 linguistic and sociological models surveyed in this book some of the more important are Grounded Theory, Content Analysis, Conversation Analysis and Critical Discourse Analysis. The book presents each approach according to a standardised format, which allows for direct systematic comparisons. The fully annotated lists of sources provide readers with an additional means of evaluation of the competing analytical methods. Interdisciplinary and international in its aims, Methods of Text and Discourse Analysis suggests the benefits both linguists and sociologists will derive from a more intimate knowledge of each others′ methods and procedures.
Studies In Text And Discourse
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Author : Azad Mammadov
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2018-06-11
Studies In Text And Discourse written by Azad Mammadov and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-11 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book covers a broad range of issues in the studies of text and discourse. It combines a theoretical framework with empirical engagement, and brings together various approaches to these two phenomena from the structural, functional and cognitive perspectives. While this topic has been widely discussed in recent years, such studies have mostly focused on specific language and discourse types. This work, however, presents the analysis of texts from American, British, Azerbaijani, French and Russian discourses across various types and genres, and adopts an exclusive focus on pragmatic and cognitive aspects. The study of these two aspects can help reveal not only global and local (cultural) identities, but also the specific features of their discourse types and genres. As such, the book also pays extensive attention to the role the studies of text and discourse can play in exploring globalization and intercultural communication.
Text And Discourse Connectedness
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Author : Maria-Elisabeth Conte
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 1989-01-01
Text And Discourse Connectedness written by Maria-Elisabeth Conte and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-01-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The 35 papers in this volume provide a comprehensive picture of crucial aspects of connectedness. The papers are divided into three main groups: the papers in the first group deal with particular questions of the text-constituting role of anaphora, deixis, coreference, modality, conjunctions and particles, theme, topic, ellipsis, etc., the second group of papers discusses the connectedness in texts/discourses of different types (narrative texts, stories, horoscopes, anecdotes, poems, comics, etc.), and, finally, the papers in the third group discuss general theoretical/methodological questions concerning connectedness.
Discourse Of Text Messaging
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Author : Caroline Tagg
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2012-05-17
Discourse Of Text Messaging written by Caroline Tagg and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-17 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Understanding the discourse of text messaging has profound implications for society. SMS text messaging has impacted considerably on how we communicate with others. Negative, sometimes alarmist media coverage continues to fuel debate surrounding its 'damaging' effects on language and literacy, yet these portrayals tend to be based on extreme or fictionalised accounts of text messaging. What kind of language do people really use when they text? Drawing on a range of academic sources from various fields, this book describes the language used in a corpus of over 11,000 text messages, as yet the largest collection in the UK. In particular, the book shows how the discourse of text messaging is shaped by users' often creative responses to the functions and constraints of the medium. This is an essential book for upper level undergraduates and postgraduates studying discourse analysis, as well as educators wanting to understand this important new form of discourse.