Texture - the quality that makes a text 'hang together' as a text - is a key focus of investigation in discourse analysis. This volume provides a systematic overview of recent research on textual resources that are used to construct texture, and on the ways in which these resources are deployed differently in different text types. Theme is the major resource that is explored in the first part of this book. The opening papers set out the current understanding of Theme and explore aspects of the concept that remain controversial in the field. This is followed by an examination of thematic choices in a range of text types. Issues raised include the different kinds of meanings appearing in Theme that are particularly significant for each genre, the ways in which these relate to the broader socio-cultural context, and the ways in which thematic choices interact with other kinds of texturing. In the second part of the collection, the scope widens to include an examination of other resources, particularly the contribution to texture made by patterns of interpersonal choices, in Theme and more broadly, across texts as a whole. The volume closes with an overview and illustration of a methodological approach by which our understanding of texturing can be further extended.
Text and Texture--patterns of Cohesion
The second part of line 18 is the second part (Sb) of the base sequence, responding to the first part (Fb, line 17), i.e. Eleni's offer to go to the aunt's place. The base adjacency pair of the post-sequence following ...
The bible remains one of the major literary achievements of human history, comprising over 60 documents, with as many contributors, and composed over many centuries. In this book, Michael Fishbane...
From Text to Texture: An Introduction to Processing Strategies
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(2009), 'Boomer dreaming: the texture of recolonisation in a lifestyle magazine', in G. Forey and G. Thompson (eds), Text-type and Texture. London: Equinox, 250-83. Martin,J. R. and Rose, D. (2003), Working with Discourse: Meaning ...
Text and Texture: Close Readings of Selected Biblical Texts
Martin, J. R. (2009c), 'Boomer dreaming: the texture of recolonisation in a lifestyle magazine', in G. Forey and G. Thompson (eds), Text-type and Texture. London: Equinox, pp. 250–83. Martin, J. R. (2009d), 'Realisation, ...
particular historical events and situations (i.e. learn to manage resources for construing external ... out the historical value and significance of events (i.e. managing resources for construing internal cause-and-effect relations).
Presenting a field-defining overview of one of the most appliable linguistic theories available today, this Handbook surveys the key issues in the study of systemic functional linguistics (SFL), covering an impressive range of theoretical ...