Discourse and Genre - Using Language in Context

This accessible guide to discourse employs an innovative, inductive approach, with a clear focus on genre that allows students to examine language in context. Using real texts, students are shown how each dimension of discourse links together and are offered practical guidance on how to carry out a discourse analysis project.>

List of contents

Introduction
How Do We Understand Texts?
Discourse and Discourse Analysis
Genre
Discourse Modes
Analysing Discourse: A Heuristic Approach
Spoken Genres: Conversations and Classrooms
Spoken Genres: The Courtroom, Jokes, Sports Commentary and Advertising
Written Genres: News reports, Personal Ads, Texting and Online Gaming
Texts Referring to other Texts: Intertextuality
DoingDiscourse Analysis
Bibliography.

About the author

Stephen Bax

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Bax
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.12.2010
• EAN: 9780230217973
• ISBN: 978-0-230-21797-3
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Perspectives on the English Language; Perspectives on the English La; Perspectives on the English Language; Perspectives on the English La
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; B, Linguistics, Social Sciences, Language and Literature, Language: reference & general, Philology