Genres in Discourse
Author: Tzvetan Todorov
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1990-08-31
Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13: 9780521349994
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA translation of recent essays by the eminent literary critic, Tzvelan Todorov.
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Genres in Discourse
Author: Tzvetan Todorov
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1990-09-28
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9780521342490
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a collection in translation of recent essays by Tzvetan Todorov, one of the most eminent of today's literary critics. The essays concentrate on the idea of genre, literary or otherwise, and asks such questions as: What is literature? What is genre? Which are the major literary genres? In the first section, Todorov proposes definitions for the notions of literature, discourse, and genre. Following is a general discussion of the two principal literary genres, fiction and poetry. Finally, in the third section of essays, Todorov examines individual authors as case studies: among them Poe, Dostoyevsky, Baudelaire, Conrad, and James.
Genres in Discourse
Author: Todorov Tzvetan
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Published: 1990
Total Pages: 136
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a collection in translation of recent essays by Tzvetan Todorov, one of the most eminent of today's literary critics. The essays concentrate on the idea of genre, literary or otherwise, and asks such questions as: What is literature? What is genre? Which are the major literary genres? In the first section, Todorov proposes definitions for the notions of literature, discourse, and genre. Following is a general discussion of the two principal literary genres, fiction and poetry. Finally, in the third section of essays, Todorov examines individual authors as case studies: among them Poe, Dostoyevsky, Baudelaire, Conrad, and James.
Worlds of Written Discourse
Author: Vijay Kumar Bhatia
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2004-06-22
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780826454454
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book extends the scope and coverage of genre theory, giving more emphasis to what is known as pragmatic space; in other words it integrates the study of discourse at the textual level with the study of how that discourse operates in its social context.
Genre- and Register-related Discourse Features in Contrast
Author: Marie-Aude Lefer
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2016-07-20
Total Pages: 163
ISBN-13: 9027266808
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume contributes to filling a gap in corpus-based research by investigating the ways in which linguistic features vary across genres/registers cross-linguistically. It brings together insightful chapters by leading scholars in the field, fruitfully exploiting genre- or register-controlled multilingual parallel and comparable corpora to: (i) problematize cross-register variation in a multilingual perspective, (ii) address methodological and theoretical issues raised by register-oriented contrastive and translation studies, (iii) investigate the cross-linguistic and cross-genre variation of specific linguistic features, such as lexical bundles, sentence-initial adverbials and tag questions, (iv) identify cross-cultural and cross-linguistic dissimilarities in expressing a functional category, viz. Appraisal, in the field of opinion mining. The book offers new cutting-edge research that should be of interest to specialists in contrastive linguistics, translation studies and cross-cultural studies. Originally published as a special issue of Languages in Contrast 14:1 (2014).
Discourse and Literature
Author: Teun A. van Dijk
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 1985-01-01
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 902727973X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscourse and Literature boldly integrates the analysis of literature and non-literary genres in an innovative embracing study of discourse. Narrative, poetry, drama, myths, songs, letters, Biblical discourse and graffiti as well as stylistics and rhetorics are the topics treaded by twelve well-known specialists selected and introduced by Teun A. van Dijk.
Greek Comedy and the Discourse of Genres
Author: Emmanuela Bakola
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-04-18
Total Pages: 421
ISBN-13: 1107355508
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRecent scholarship has acknowledged that the intertextual discourse of ancient comedy with previous and contemporary literary traditions is not limited to tragedy. This book is a timely response to the more sophisticated and theory-grounded way of viewing comedy's interactions with its cultural and intellectual context. It shows that in the process of its self-definition, comedy emerges as voracious and multifarious with a wide spectrum of literary, sub-literary and paraliterary traditions, the engagement with which emerges as central to its projected literary identity and, subsequently, to the reception of the genre itself. Comedy's self-definition through generic discourse far transcends the (narrowly conceived) 'high-low' division of genres. This book explores ancient comedy's interactions with Homeric and Hesiodic epic, iambos, lyric, tragedy, the fable tradition, the ritual performances of the Greek polis, and its reception in Platonic writings and Alexandrian scholarship, within a unified interpretative framework.
Genres and Genre Theory in Transition
Author: Giuliana Garzone
Publisher: Universal-Publishers
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 1612337201
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume features representative studies focusing on the evolution of text genres in corporate and professional communication. Genre change is explored in various contexts in light of the increasing importance of new media and the profound social changes that have occurred in the last few decades. Major theoretical issues are raised and discussed, highlighting the need to reconsider the repertoire of conventions traditionally identified in each specific genre, and to reassess and update the analytical tools used to investigate them, about three decades after the emergence of genre analysis.
Contrastive Analysis of Discourse-pragmatic Aspects of Linguistic Genres
Author: Karin Aijmer
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-03-29
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 3319545566
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume will give readers insight into how genres are characterised by the patterns of frequency and distribution of linguistic features across a number of European languages. The material presented in this book will also stimulate further corpus-based contrastive research including more languages, more genres and different types of corpora. This is the first special issue of the Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics, a publication that addresses the interface between the two disciplines and offers a platform to scholars who combine both methodologies to present rigorous and interdisciplinary findings about language in real use. Corpus linguistics and Pragmatics have traditionally represented two paths of scientific thought, parallel but often mutually exclusive and excluding. Corpus Linguistics can offer a meticulous methodology based on mathematics and statistics, while Pragmatics is characterized by its effort in the interpretation of intended meaning in real language.
