Pragmatics of Discourse

✍ Scribed by Klaus P. Schneider (editor); Anne Barron (editor)

Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Year: 2014
Tongue: English
Leaves: 640
Series: Handbooks of Pragmatics [HOPS]; 3
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface to the handbook series
Acknowledgements
Table of contents
1. Discourse pragmatics: signposting a vast field
2. Conceptualising discourse
Part I: Approaches to discourse
3. The emergence of discourse analysis as a disciplinary field: philosophical, pedagogic and linguistic approaches
4. Conversation analysis
5. Systemic-functional approaches to discourse
6. Genre analysis
7. Critical discourse analysis
8. Corpus linguistics and discourse analysis
9. Multimodal pragmatics
Part II: Discourse structures
10. Discourse Markers
11. Stance
12. Speech act sequences
13. Phases in discourse
14. Move structure
15. Silence
Part III: Discourse types and domains
16. Taxonomies of discourse types
17. Classroom discourse
18. Pragmatics and medical discourse
19. Legal discourse: processes of making evidence in specialised legal corpora
20. Electronic discourse
21. Press releases
About the authors
Author index
Subject index

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