VAN DIJK: DISCOURSE (P) AS STRUCTURE AND PROCESS - Couverture souple

Teun A Van Dijk

 
9780803978454: VAN DIJK: DISCOURSE (P) AS STRUCTURE AND PROCESS

Synopsis

What are the structures of discourse and what are the functions of these structures in the communicative context? This volume explains how and why discourse is organized at various levels. The multidisciplinary contributions illustrate that discourse analysis goes far beyond the linguistic answer of designing grammars and goes hand in hand with the study of their uses and functions in the social context. Comprehensive and accessible, the volume covers a huge variety of discourse genres, including written and spoken, and storytelling and argumentation. The chapters also illustrate the necessity to examine the mental processes of the language users: How do people go about producing, understanding and remembering text or talk? The book stresses that both discourse and its mental processing have a social basis and can only be fully understood in relation to social interaction.

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9780803978447: Discourse As Structure and Process: Discourse Studies : A Multidisciplinary Introduction

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ISBN 10 :  0803978448 ISBN 13 :  9780803978447
Editeur : Sage Publications Ltd, 1997
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