Analysing the Language of Discourse Communities
Analysing the Language of Discourse Communities

Author: Joan Cutting

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-10-25

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 0585473803

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This text describes how the language used in social interaction evolves from the time the speakers first meet and becomes the in-group code of a given discourse community (in this case the academic community). Most studies reported in the literature of the language of groups and intimates until now have been global, imprecise or unsystematic, and have described the language as a product at a given time; no systematic study appears to have been carried out to follow through the interactions of individuals as they form a group, to discover precisely how and why language changes over time as assumed knowledge grows. Here, the author focuses on the precise changes that occur with increasing knowledge over time, and uses a longitudinal approach to describe the language as a process.

Text, Role and Context
Text, Role and Context

Author: Ann M. Johns

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1997-06-13

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 9780521561389

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This text explores fundamental issues relating to student literacies and instructor roles and practices within academic contexts. It offers a brief history of literacy theories and argues for "socioliterate" approaches to teaching and learning in which texts are viewed as primarily socially constructed. Central to socioliteracy, the concepts "genre" and "discourse community," are presented in detail. The author argues for roles for literacy practitioners in which they and their students conduct research and are involved in joint pedagogical endeavors. The final chapters are devoted to outlining how the views presented can be applied to a variety of classroom texts. Core curricular design principles are outlined, and three types of portfolio-based academic literacy classrooms are described.

Discourse Across Languages and Cultures
Discourse Across Languages and Cultures

Author: Carol Lynn Moder

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 9789027230782

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This volume seeks to answers such questions as: how is conscious experience translated into discourse? How are foregrounding and backgrounding accomplished? What is the function of features like lexical choice and referential choice? And many more.

Analysing Discourse
Analysing Discourse

Author: Norman Fairclough

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 9780415258937

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"The book is an essential resource seeking to analyze real texts and discourse."--BOOK JACKET.

Linguistic Complexity
Linguistic Complexity

Author: Bernd Kortmann

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2012-05-29

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 3110229226

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Linguistic complexity is one of the currently most hotly debated notions in linguistics. The essays in this volume reflect the intricacies of thinking about the complexity of languages and language varieties (here: of English) in three major contact-related fields of (and schools in) linguistics: creolistics, indigenization and nativization studies (i.e. in the realm of English linguistics, the “World Englishes” community), and Second Language Acquisition (SLA) research: How can we adequately assess linguistic complexity? Should we be interested in absolute complexity or rather relative complexity? What is the extent to which language contact and/or (adult) language learning might lead to morphosyntactic simplification? The authors in this volume are all leading linguists in different areas of specialization, and they were asked to elaborate on those facets of linguistic complexity which are most relevant in their area of specialization, and/or which strike them as being most intriguing. The result is a collection of papers that is unique in bringing together leading representatives of three often disjunct fields of linguistic scholarship in which linguistic complexity is seen as a dynamic and inherently variable parameter.

Analysing Religious Discourse
Analysing Religious Discourse

Author: Stephen Pihlaja

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-07-08

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 1108836135

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A comprehensive introduction to all the major research approaches to religious language, from a variety of linguistic perspectives.

An Introduction to Discourse Analysis
An Introduction to Discourse Analysis

Author: James Paul Gee

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-02-03

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 1317820576

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Discourse analysis considers how language, both spoken and written, enacts social and cultural perspectives and identities. Assuming no prior knowledge of linguistics, An Introduction to Discourse Analysis examines the field and presents James Paul Gee’s unique integrated approach which incorporates both a theory of language-in-use and a method of research. An Introduction to Discourse Analysis can be used as a stand-alone textbook or ideally used in conjunction with the practical companion title How to do Discourse Analysis: A Toolkit. Together they provide the complete resource for students studying discourse analysis. Updated throughout, the fourth edition of this seminal textbook also includes two new chapters: ‘What is Discourse?’ to further understanding of the topic, as well as a new concluding section. A new companion website www.routledge.com/cw/gee features a frequently asked questions section, additional tasks to support understanding, a glossary and free access to journal articles by James Paul Gee. Clearly structured and written in a highly accessible style, An Introduction to Discourse Analysis includes perspectives from a variety of approaches and disciplines, including applied linguistics, education, psychology, anthropology and communication to help students and scholars from a range of backgrounds to formulate their own views on discourse and engage in their own discourse analysis. This is an essential textbook for all advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of discourse analysis.

Critical Discourse Analysis
Critical Discourse Analysis

Author: Norman Fairclough

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-09-13

Total Pages: 604

ISBN-13: 1317864654

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Bringing together papers written by Norman Fairclough over a 25 year period, Critical Discourse Analysis represents a comprehensive and important contribution to the development of this popular field. The book is divided into seven sections covering the following themes: language in relation to ideology and power discourse in processes of social and cultural change dialectics of discourse, dialectical relations between discourse and other moments of social life methodology of critical discourse analysis research analysis of political discourse discourse in globalisation and ‘transition’ critical language awareness in education The new edition has been extensively revised and enlarged to include a total of twenty two papers. It will be of value to researchers in the subject and should prove essential reading for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students in Linguistics and other areas of social science.

The Bloomsbury Companion to Discourse Analysis
The Bloomsbury Companion to Discourse Analysis

Author: Ken Hyland

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2013-02-14

Total Pages: 473

ISBN-13: 1441160124

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Originally published as The Continuum Companion to Discourse Analysis, this book is designed to be the essential one-volume resource for advanced students and academics. This companion offers a comprehensive and accessible reference resource to research in contemporary discourse studies. In 21 chapters written by leading figures in the field, the volume provides readers with an authoritative overview of key terms, methods and current research topics and directions. It offers both a survey of current research and gives more practical guidance for advanced study in the area. The volume covers all the most important issues, concepts, movements and approaches in the field and features a glossary of key terms in the area of discourse analysis. It is the complete resource for postgraduate students and researchers working within discourse studies, applied linguistics, TESOL and the social sciences.

Analysing Representation
Analysing Representation

Author: Frazer Heritage

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-05-31

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 104001898X

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Analysing Representation: A Corpus and Discourse Textbook guides readers through the process of researching how people and phenomena are represented in discourse and introduces them to key tools they can use from corpus linguistics and (critical) discourse analysis. This book takes a step-by-step approach to introducing each concept and includes exercises and further reading to help readers check their progress and prepare for independent research. It is unique in introducing readers to a range of experts representing the full range of work in this area. This book is aimed at final-year undergraduate, taught postgraduate and doctoral level students. It wil also be useful to scholars who are new to combining corpus and discourse methods in investigations of representation.