analysing language in context Bax, Stephen. creator text nyu New York Palgrave Macmillan 2011 monographic eng

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p. cm. "This accessible guide to discourse employs an innovative, inductive approach, with a clear focus on genre that allows students to examine language in context. Using real texts, students are shown how each dimension of discourse links together and are offered practical guidance on how to carry out a discourse analysis project"-- Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: Why This Book is as it is * How Do We Understand Language? * What is Discourse? * What is Discourse Analysis? * How Ideas and Sentences Link Up: Grammar, Lexis and Cohesion -- * Discourse and the Human Mind: Concepts, Schemas, Scripts and Genres * Five Genre Modes * -- Spoken Genres: Interacting Mode * More Spoken Genres: Interacting, Narrating, Describing, Sequencing * Written Genres in Different Modes * Texts Referring to Other Texts: Intertextuality -- * Doing Discourse Analysis * Conclusion * Bibliography. Stephen Bax. Includes index. Discourse analysis LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General P302 .B375 2011 401.41 BSD LAN009000 LAN020000 LAN000000 9780230217973 (pbk.) 9780230217966 2011003108 DLC 110121 20150408113918.0 16618943