LINGUIST List 12.406

Thu Feb 15 2001

Books: Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis

Editor for this issue: Naomi Ogasawara <naomilinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Kimberly Kahn, Pragmatics: Doing Pragmatics by P. Grundy
2. Kimberly Kahn, Discourse Analysis: Evaluation in Text by Hunston & Thompson (eds.)

DOING PRAGMATICS
Second Edition
Peter Grundy, University of Durham

(An Arnold Publication)

The first edition of Peter Grundy's Doing Pragmatics achieved success
through its unparalleled capacity to render pragmatics accessible to
those studying it. With the same user-friendly style, this revised
and updated edition will provide a solid foundation in the subject for
students of lingustics and related disciplines.

July 2000 304 pp.; 18 line illus
0-340-75892-9 paper $24.95
Oxford University Press
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Kimberly Kahn
Oxford University Press, 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016
Phone: (212) 726-6086 Fax: (212) 726-6442 E-mail: krkoup-usa.org

EVALUATION IN TEXT: Authorial Stance and the Construction of Discourse
Edited by Susan Hunston, University of Birmingham,
 and Geoff Thompson, University of Liverpool

Long neglected as a focus of linguistic research, evaluation in its
various guises is now being recognized as a crucial aspect of any
study of discourse. In this book, writers coming from different
standpoints are brought together, providing a unique profile of the
topic from several perspectives. These perspectives include: Systemic
Linguistics, Narrative, Corpus Linguistics, and Discourse Analysis.

Contents: 

1. Evaluation, Geoff Thompson and Susan Hunston 
2. Persuasive Rhetoric in Linguistics, Michael Hoey 
3. Corpus-based Analysis of Evaluative Lexis, Joanna Channell 
4. Adverbial Marking of Stance in Speech and Writing, Susan Conrad and
 Douglas Biber 
5. A Local Grammar of Evaluation, Susan Hunston and John Sinclair 
6. Evaluating Evaluation in Narrative, Martin Cortazzi and Lixian Jin 
7. Evaluation and Organization in Text, Geoff Thompson and Jianglin Zhou 
8. Beyond Exchange, J. R. Martin 
9. Evaluation and the Planes of Discourse, Susan Hunston References

2000 (paper February 2001) 240 pp.; 7 line illus
0-19-829986-9 paper $24.95
Oxford University Press
 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Kimberly Kahn
Oxford University Press, 198 Madison Avenue, New
York, NY 10016
Phone: (212) 726-6086 Fax: (212) 726-6442 E-mail: krkoup-usa.org