Discourse on the Move: Using corpus analysis to describe discourse structure
- ISBN-10
- 9027291918
- ISBN-13
- 9789027291912
- Category
- Language Arts & Disciplines
- Pages
- 290
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007-09-19
- Publisher
- John Benjamins Publishing
- Authors
- Ulla Connor, Douglas Biber, Thomas A. Upton
Description
Discourse on the Move is the first book-length exploration of how corpus-based methods can be used for discourse analysis, applied to the description of discourse organization. The primary goal is to bring these two analytical perspectives together: undertaking a detailed discourse analysis of each individual text, but doing so in terms that can be generalized across all texts of a corpus. The book explores two major approaches to this task: ‘top-down’ and ‘bottom-up’. In the ‘top-down’ approach, the functional components of a genre are determined first, and then all texts in a corpus are analyzed in terms of those components. In contrast, textual components emerge from the corpus analysis in the bottom-up approach, and the discourse organization of individual texts is then analyzed in terms of linguistically-defined textual categories. Both approaches are illustrated through case studies of discourse structure in particular genres: fund-raising letters, biology/biochemistry research articles, and university classroom teaching.
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