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LINGUIST List 18.3150

Fri Oct 26 2007

Books: Discipline of Ling/Discourse Analysis: Biber, Connor, Upton

Editor for this issue: Hannah Morales <hannahlinguistlist.org>

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        1.    Paul Peranteau, Discourse on the Move: Biber, Connor, Upton
Message 1: Discourse on the Move: Biber, Connor, Upton
Date: 25-Oct-2007
From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com>
Subject: Discourse on the Move: Biber, Connor, Upton
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Title: Discourse on the Move
Subtitle: Using corpus analysis to describe discourse structure
Series Title: Studies in Corpus Linguistics 28
Published: 2007
Publisher: John Benjamins
                http://www.benjamins.com/

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=SCL%2028

Author: Douglas Biber
Author: Ulla Connor
Author: Thomas A. Upton
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027223029 Pages: 305 Price: Europe EURO 105.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027223029 Pages: 305 Price: U.S. $ 142.00
Abstract:

Discourse on the Move is the first book-length exploration of how
corpus-based methods can be used for discourse analysis, applied to the
description of discourse organization. The primary goal is to bring these
two analytical perspectives together: undertaking a detailed discourse
analysis of each individual text, but doing so in terms that can be
generalized across all texts of a corpus. The book explores two major
approaches to this task: 'top-down' and 'bottom-up'. In the 'top-down'
approach, the functional components of a genre are determined first, and
then all texts in a corpus are analyzed in terms of those components. In
contrast, textual components emerge from the corpus analysis in the
bottom-up approach, and the discourse organization of individual texts is
then analyzed in terms of linguistically-defined textual categories. Both
approaches are illustrated through case studies of discourse structure in
particular genres: fund-raising letters, biology/biochemistry research
articles, and university classroom teaching.

Linguistic Field(s): Discipline of Linguistics
                            Discourse Analysis
                            Text/Corpus Linguistics

Written In: English (eng )

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Equinox Publishing Ltd. http://www.equinoxpub.com/
European Language Resources Association http://www.elda.org/sommaire.php
Georgetown University Press http://www.press.georgetown.edu
Hodder Arnold http://www.hoddereducation.co.uk
John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates http://www.erlbaum.com/
Lincom GmbH http://www.lincom.at
MIT Press http://mitpress.mit.edu/
Mouton de Gruyter http://www.mouton-publishers.com
Multilingual Matters http://www.multilingual-matters.com/
Oxford University Press http://www.oup.com/us
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Springer http://www.springer.com

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International Pragmatics Assoc. http://www.ipra.be
Kingston Press Ltd http://www.kingstonpress.com/
Linguistic Assoc. of Finland http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/
MIT Working Papers in Linguistics http://web.mit.edu/mitwpl/
Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke http://www.lotpublications.nl/
Pacific Linguistics http://pacling.anu.edu.au/
SIL International http://www.ethnologue.com/bookstore.asp
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