In:Discourse, of Course: An overview of research in discourse studies
Edited by Jan Renkema
[Not in series 148] 2009
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 14 May 2009
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.148.toc
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Table of contents
A multiple invitation to discourse studies
Part I. Discourse in communication13
Doing discourse with possible worlds
Discourses "off course"?
Part II. Discourse and other communication modes53
Discourse across semiotic modes
Schemes and tropes in Visual Communication: The case of object grouping in advertisements
Part III. Discourse types79
Text types and dynamism of genres
Academic and professional written genres in disciplinary communication: Theoretical and empirical challenges
Part IV. Discourse structures111
Why investigate textual information hierarchy?
Implicit and explicit coherence relations
Part V. Stylistics and rhetorics141
Style and culture in quantitative discourse analysis
Devices of probability and obligation in text types
Analysis and evaluation of argumentative discourse
Part VI. Discourse and cognition185
Embodied cognition, discourse and dual coding theory: New directions
The cognition of discourse coherence
A computational psycholinguistic algorithm to measure cohesion in discourse
Part VII. Discourse and institution225
Chinese questions and power relations in institutional dialogue
Towards a process view of preformulation in press releases
Media discourse
Part VIII. Discourse and culture275
Critical discourse analysis
Gendered discursive constructions of bank manager positions: Conflicting social identities
The semiotics of racism: A critical discourse-historical analysis
Key to the assignments
References
Index
