Spoken Discourse

Author : Malcolm Coulthard
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134918925
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Advances in Spoken Discourse Analysis written by Malcolm Coulthard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection reviews 20 years of research into Spoken Discourse by the Birmingham group, allowing, for the first time, a developmental perspective. It combines previously published but unavailable work with new research. Bringing together recent theories of discourse structure, with a new and detailed analytic framework, the book emphasises both historical context and new developments. The articles are comprehensive, ranging from the theoretical to the highly applied. Practical applications include language teaching, literary stylistics and forensic linguistics with examples taken from literature and language classrooms, telephone conversations, disputed witness statements and corpuses of spoken English.

Author : Deborah Cameron
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761957737
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Working with Spoken Discourse written by Deborah Cameron and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2001-05-25 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working with Spoken Discourse provides a comprehensive account of the expanding multidisciplinary field of discourse analysis. It discusses current approaches, concepts and debates in the field of spoken discourse and provides a grounding in the practical techniques of discourse analysis and how to apply them to real data.

Author : Willis Edmondson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Spoken Discourse written by Willis Edmondson and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michele Zappavigna
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441128409
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Tacit Knowledge and Spoken Discourse written by Michele Zappavigna and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A searching analysis of spoken discourse in the workplace, challenging Polyani's theory of Tacit Knowledge.

Author : James Rock
Publisher : EDUCatt - Ente per il diritto allo studio universitario dell'Università Cattolica
ISBN 13 : 8867800671
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Perspectives on Spoken Discourse written by James Rock and published by EDUCatt - Ente per il diritto allo studio universitario dell'Università Cattolica. This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, written for both teachers of English and advanced lan-guage students, presents research related to spoken discourse carried out by three linguists from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. The book opens with an article by James Rock on the Common Eu-ropean Framework of Reference and its relevance to the concept of communicative competence and the practice of learning spoken English within the university context. In his second article, Rock presents an overview of studies on phra-seology in the non-native speaker setting, and shows that initial interest in phraseology in the field of language acquisition highlighted the fact that native-like fluency does not stem so much from knowledge of grammatical rules as from features of idiomaticity. In the third paper in the collection, Caterina Pavesi examines learner English written on the computer and seeks to ascertain the status of this Eng-lish on the written-spoken continuum. Learner English has been the object of a great deal of scholarly attention in recent decades, but it has not yet been studied in any great depth in its computer-mediated form. The fourth article in the book examines the language of films, traditionally considered to be an artificial form of language, not representative of speech, and thus of little value in the study of spoken discourse. In direct contrast with this view, PIerfranca Forchini shows that empirical research on American movies transcribed by her actually proves that the language of movies is extremely similar to conversation along several parameters. Adopting Biber’s analytical method, Multi-Dimensional Analysis, which attaches a score to features of language and measures the occurrence of these features, grouping them into dimensions which can describe different types of discourse, Forchini shows that movie language is surprisingly similar to conversational discourse on four out of five dimensions, thus overturning the long-held view of the status of this type of language, and providing scientific justification for using movies to teach features of spoken discourse. The research was presented at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Brescia in October 2013 under the auspices of and with the support of the Centro Linguistico dell’Università Cattolica (CLUC).

Author : Maria Grazia Sindoni
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113506881X
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Spoken and Written Discourse in Online Interactions written by Maria Grazia Sindoni and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the AIA Book Prize for a research monograph in the field of English Language and Linguistics (2016) Common patterns of interactions are altered in the digital world and new patterns of communication have emerged, challenging previous notions of what communication actually is in the contemporary age. Online configurations of interaction, such as video chats, blogging, and social networking practices demand profound rethinking of the categories of linguistic analysis, given the blurring of traditional distinctions between oral and written discourse in digital texts. This volume reconsiders underlying linguistic and semiotic frameworks of analysis of spoken and written discourse in the light of the new paradigms of online communication, in keeping with a multimodal corpus linguistics theoretical framework. Typical modes of online interaction encompass speech, writing, gesture, movement, gaze, and social distance. This is nothing new, but here Sindoni asserts that all these modes are integrated in unprecedented ways, enacting new interactional patterns and new systems of interpretation among web users. These "non verbal" modes have been sidelined by mainstream linguistics, whereas accounting for the complexity of new genres and making sense of their educational impact is high on this volume’ s agenda. Sindoni analyzes other new phenomena, ranging from the intimate sphere (i.e. video chats, personal blogs or journals on social networking websites) to the public arena (i.e. global-scale transmission of information and knowledge in public blogs or media-sharing communities), shedding light on the rapidly changing global web scenario.

Author : Karin Aijmer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027253620
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Discourse Patterns in Spoken and Written Corpora written by Karin Aijmer and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together a number of empirical studies that use corpora to study discourse patterns in speech and writing. It explores new trends in the area of text and discourse characterized by the alliance between text linguistics and areas such as corpus linguistics, genre analysis, literary stylistics and cross-linguistic studies. The contributions to the volume show how established corpora can be used to ask a number of new questions about the interface between speech and writing, the relation between grammar and discourse, academic discourse, cohesive markers, stylistic devices such as metaphor, deixis and non-verbal communication. The corpora used for text-analysis can also be tailor-made for the study of particular genres such as journal article abstracts, lectures, e-mailing list messages, headlines and titles. A recent development is to bring in contrastive data from bilingual corpora to show what is language-specific in the organization of the text.

Author : Graham Low
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521649643
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Researching and Applying Metaphor written by Graham Low and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-02-11 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates how metaphor needs to be researched using multiple methods of investigation.

Author : Olga Dontcheva-Navratilova
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 152755662X
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Coherence and Cohesion in Spoken and Written Discourse written by Olga Dontcheva-Navratilova and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-13 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coherence and Cohesion in Spoken and Written Discourse provides new insights into the various ways coherence works in a wide spread of spoken and written text types and interactional situations, all of which point to the dynamics and subjectivity of its nature. Despite the variety of approaches the authors adopt, they share an understanding of language as a dynamic and heterogeneous system mediating interaction in social and cultural contexts and explain how coherence and cohesion are reflected in different contextually bound aspects of human communication. The chapters of the book comprise essays by linguists working in the fields of pragmatics, discourse analysis and stylistics which explore features contributing to the perception of cohesion and coherence in spoken and written varieties of English, namely impromptu, academic and political discourse within the former variety, and media, academic and fictional discourse within the latter. This volume, which combines theoretical insights with practical analyses of different varieties of spoken and written English discourse, will be of interest to a wide range of researchers, scholars and students of English.

Author : Gwyneth Fox
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134881401
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Techniques of Description written by Gwyneth Fox and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-01-14 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a tribute to Malcolm Coulthard, who has been remarkably active and influential across a wide range of English Language Studies. He is particularly well-known for his pioneering work in spoken and written discourse analysis and most recently, for his work in forensic linguistics. This collection of specially commissioned, state-of-the-art pieces by leading international linguists is dedicated to the man and his achievements and provides a showcase for the most exciting developments in applied discourse studies. All the papers share common assumptions about language study: that descriptions should be data-based, data-tested and replicable. The collection as a whole contains original and important new research on descriptions, with intriuging applications to forensic, gender and literary studies.