Title:
Advances in written text analysis
Publication Information:
London : Routledge, 1994
ISBN:
9780415095204
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Summary
Summary
This work provides an overview of a wide range of approaches to written text analysis. It includes both classic and specially commissioned papers by distinguished authors, which share a common linguistic framework. The pieces contain a variety of focuses from the patterning of paragraphs, sections or whole texts to the organization of clauses, individual expressions and single words, as well as a variety of text-types. The examples used range from pure science through social science, academic journals, weekly magazines and newspapers, to literary narratives. This collection forms the basis for an course on written text analysis that should be of interest to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students.
Table of Contents
| About the Authors | p. vii |
| Preface | p. xi |
| Acknowledgements | p. xiii |
| 1 On Analysing and Evaluating Written Text | p. 1 |
| 2 Trust the Text | p. 12 |
| 3 Signalling in Discourse: a Functional Analysis of a Common Discourse Pattern in Written and Spoken English | p. 26 |
| 4 Clause Relations as Information Structure: Two Basic Text Structures in English | p. 46 |
| 5 Predictive Categories in Expository Text | p. 69 |
| 6 Labelling Discourse: an Aspect of Nominal-Group Lexical Cohesion | p. 83 |
| 7 The Text and Its Message | p. 102 |
| 8 The Analysis of Fixed Expressions in Text | p. 117 |
| 9 The Construction of Knowledge and Value in the Grammar of Scientific Discourse, with Reference to Charles Darwin's the Origin of Species | p. 136 |
| 10 Frames of Reference: Contextual Monitoring and the Interpretation of Narrative Discourse | p. 157 |
| 11 Inferences in Discourse Comprehension | p. 167 |
| 12 Narratives of Science and Nature in Popularizing Molecular Genetics | p. 179 |
| 13 Evaluation and Organization in a Sample of Written Academic Discourse | p. 191 |
| Notes | p. 218 |
| 14 Genre Analysis: an Approach to Text Analysis for Esp | p. 219 |
| 15 On Theme, Rheme and Discourse Goals | p. 229 |
| Appendix I p. 245 | |
| Appendix II p. 246 | |
| Appendix Iii Diagram for the Body of the Zpg Letter | p. 249 |
| 16 Negatives in Written Text | p. 250 |
| 17 It, This and That | p. 266 |
| 18 The Structure of Newspaper Editorials | p. 276 |
| 19 On Reporting Reporting: the Representation of Speech in Factual and Factional Narratives | p. 295 |
| References | p. 309 |
