| Description |
1 online resource (193 pages) |
| Series |
The Basics |
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Basics.
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| Contents |
Discourse: The Basics; The Basics; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; 1 Defining Discourse; Aims of This Chapter; What Does the Word 'Discourse' Mean?; Discourse and Its Relationship With Text; A Different View of 'Text'; Discourse and Communities of Practice; 'Little D' Discourse and 'Big D' Discourses; Discourse as an Everyday Term; Discourse and Academic Subjects; 2 Discourse and Context: A Practical Exercise; Aims of This Chapter; Discourse and Context; Who is Communicating With You? Why Have They Chosen This Particular Format and Placement? |
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How Would You Describe the Type of Language They Are Using?What Type of Person is Being Addressed?; What Does the Text Want You to Do?; Does This Text Remind You of Other Texts You Have Seen?; 3 Language, Thought and Discourse; Aims of This Chapter; 'A World That is Silently Taken for Granted'; How Far Does Language Define Our Reality?; Linguistic Determinism and Relativism; Language and Representation; 'A Problem That Has No Name'; 'I Live in a World of Others' Words'; Lost in Translation; Got a Word for It?; 4 Language, Society and Discourse; Aims of This Chapter; Taking Part in Discourse |
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Signs in SignsDisrupting Signs; Representations and Reality; Looking Beyond the Label; How Far Can You Go?; 5 Discourse and Metaphor; Aims of This Chapter; What is a Metaphor?; Metaphor and Shared Experience; Metaphor and Literariness; Metaphor Across Academic Disciplines; Metaphor and Everyday Language Use; Metaphor and Digital Communication; Metaphor and Its Entailments; An Extended Example; Metaphors of the Field; Deep and Surface Forms; 6 Discourse and Rhetoric; Aims of This Chapter; The Emphasis of This Chapter; The Origins of Rhetoric; So was Rhetoric the Art of Lying? |
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Speeches and ContextsAristotle's Rhetorical Categories and Structures; The Power of Language Choices; A Practical Example; Modern Rhetorical Studies; 7 Discourse and Interactivity; Aims of This Chapter; 'Little D' Discourse and 'Big D' Discourses; Interactivity and Spoken Language; Interactivity and Written Language; Interactivity and New Forms of Communication; 8 Discourse and Narrative; Aims of This Chapter; The Centrality of Narrative; Telling a Story; William Labov's 'Natural Narratives'; Literary Criticism, Formalism and Stylistics; Critical Linguistics; Life-Writing |
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9 Discourse and IdentityAims of This Chapter; Everyday Meanings of 'Identity'; Academic Definitions; Studies of Language and Identity; Changing Ideas About Identity and Notions of Self; 10 Collecting and Representing Discourse; Aims of This Chapter; General Research Skills; Specific Research Skills; References and Further Reading; Glossary/Index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Discourse analysis -- Study and teaching
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Discourse analysis -- Textbooks
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Discourse analysis.
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Discourse analysis -- Study and teaching.
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| Genre/Form |
Textbooks.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Carey, Neil
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| ISBN |
9781351757706 |
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1351757709 |
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