Text, Context, Pretext: Critical Isssues in Discourse Analysis

✍ Scribed by H. G. Widdowson

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 198
• Series: Language in Society
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Written by a leading researcher in the field, this fascinating examination of the relations between grammar, text, and discourse is designed to provoke critical discussion on key issues in discourse analysis which are not always clearly identified and examined.

Written by a leading researcher in the field

Continues the enquiry into discourse analysis that Zellig Harris initiated 50 years ago, which raised a number of problematic issues that have remained unresolved ever since

Introduces the notion of pretext as an additional factor in the general interpretative process

Focuses attention specifically on the work of critical discourse analysis (CDA) in light of the issues discussed

✦ Table of Contents

Text, Context, Pretext: Critical Issues in Discourse Analysis......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
Preface......Page 9
1 Text and discourse......Page 13
2 Text and grammar......Page 29
3 Context......Page 48
4 Context and co-text......Page 70
5 Pretext......Page 86
6 Critical discourse analysis......Page 101
7 Text and corpus analysis......Page 124
8 Analysis and interpretation......Page 140
9 Approach and method......Page 159
10 Conclusion......Page 177
References......Page 187
Index of names......Page 192
Index of subjects......Page 194