Gillian Perrett
List of John Benjamins publications in which Gillian Perrett is involved.
Articles
1997 Discourse and rank: The unit transaction in the oral interview (or what is the purpose of this conversation anyway?) Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 20:1, pp. 1–20 | Article
The number of ranks required for an adequate discourse analysis may vary between genres and can be explained with reference to the social purpose of that genre. Stages of generic structure were attributed to eight language testing interviews on the basis of apparent interviewer purpose, and this… read more
1987 Discourse analysis models for second language teaching Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 10:1, pp. 56–75 | Article
The categories of the functional-notional syllabus are inadequate because, like the speech act theory on which they are based, they recognize only the social function of language and not its discourse function. A further difficulty is that illocutionary acts do not map onto single utterances as… read more