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Modes of discourse : = the local structure of texts /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Modes of discourse :/ Carlota S. Smith.
Reminder of title:	the local structure of texts /
Author:	Smith, Carlota S.,
Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 320 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Discourse analysis. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511615108
ISBN:	9780511615108 (ebook)

Modes of discourse : = the local structure of texts /
Smith, Carlota S.,

Modes of discourse :the local structure of texts /Carlota S. Smith. - 1 online resource (xiv, 320 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge studies in linguistics ;103. - Cambridge studies in linguistics ;98..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

1. The study of discourse -- 2. Introduction to the Discourse Modes -- 3. Text representation and understanding -- 4. Aspectual information: the entities introduced in discourse -- 5. Temporal and spatial progression -- 6. Referring expressions in discourse -- 7. Subjectivity in texts -- 8. The contribution of surface presentation -- 9. Non-canonical structures and presentation -- 10. Information in text passages -- 11. Discourse structure and Discourse Modes.

In studying discourse, the problem for the linguist is to find a fruitful level of analysis. Carlota Smith offers a new approach with this study of discourse passages, units of several sentences or more. She introduces the key idea of the 'Discourse Mode', identifying five modes: Narrative, Description, Report, Information, Argument. These are realized at the level of the passage, and cut across genre lines. Smith shows that the modes, intuitively recognizable as distinct, have linguistic correlates that differentiate them. She analyzes the properties that distinguish each mode, focusing on grammatical rather than lexical information. The book also examines linguistically based features that appear in passages of all five modes: topic and focus, variation in syntactic structure, and subjectivity, or point of view. Operating at the interface of syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, the book will appeal to researchers and graduate students in linguistics, stylistics and rhetoric.

ISBN: 9780511615108 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

555143
Discourse analysis.

LC Class. No.: P302 / .S539 2003

Dewey Class. No.: 401/.41

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