In:Introduction to Discourse Studies: New edition
Jan Renkema and Christoph Schubert
[Not in series 219] 2018
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Table of contents
Advisory board for Introduction to Discourse Studiesxi
Prefacexiii
Chapter 1.Introduction1
1.1A rough definition of discourse studies1
1.2Aim and structure of this book2
1.3The presentation of the material5
Questions and assignments7
Bibliographical information8
Part I.General orientation
Chapter 2.The pragmatic framework13
2.1Introduction13
2.2The Organon model13
2.3Speech act theory16
2.3.1Types of speech acts and felicity conditions16
2.3.2Illocutions in discourse18
2.4The cooperative principle21
2.5Relevance theory24
2.6Politeness theory28
2.7Summary34
Questions and assignments36
Bibliographical information39
Chapter 3.Discourse in communication41
3.1Introduction41
3.2Pragmatics and semiotics41
3.3Social rules for symbolic interaction44
3.4Sender and receiver in communication theory46
3.5The discourse situation49
3.6The socio-semiotic approach of Functional Grammar52
3.7What makes discourse discourse?55
3.8Summary58
Questions and assignments60
Bibliographical information63
Part II.Backpacking for a journey into discourse studies
Chapter 4.Discourse classification67
4.1Introduction67
4.2Typologies of discourse67
4.3Written language and spoken interaction72
4.4Genre theory and analysis74
4.5Multimodality78
4.6Electronic discourse84
4.6.1General characteristics of computer-mediated discourse84
4.6.2Hypertext88
4.6.3Online genres90
4.7Summary92
Questions and assignments94
Bibliographical information98
Chapter 5.Structured content101
5.1Introduction101
5.2Propositions101
5.3Sentence and discourse topics105
5.4Macrostructures109
5.5Superstructures113
5.6Concept-based approaches to discourse content115
5.7Summary119
Questions and assignments120
Bibliographical information123
Chapter 6.Discourse connections125
6.1Introduction125
6.2Cohesion125
6.2.1Types of cohesive ties126
6.2.2Referential elements129
6.3Coherence132
6.4Rhetorical Structure Theory136
6.5Discourse relation research138
6.6Connectivity theory140
6.7Summary143
Questions and assignments145
Bibliographical information149
Chapter 7.Contextual phenomena151
7.1Introduction151
7.2Approaches to context152
7.3Deixis154
7.4Information management158
7.4.1Staging158
7.4.2Given and new information161
7.5Perspectivization163
7.6Implicit meaning167
7.6.1Presuppositions168
7.6.2Inferences171
7.7Summary174
Questions and assignments175
Bibliographical information179
Chapter 8.Style and stylistics181
8.1Introduction181
8.2Form, content and situation181
8.3Views on style184
8.4Normative and objective analysis187
8.5Everyday and literary language191
8.6Contemporary approaches to stylistics194
8.6.1Corpus stylistics194
8.6.2Pragmatic stylistics197
8.6.3Cognitive poetics201
8.7Summary206
Questions and assignments208
Bibliographical information211
Part III.Special modes of communication
Chapter 9.Conversation analysis215
9.1Introduction215
9.2Transcription methods215
9.3The turn-taking model217
9.4Sequential organization221
9.5Discourse markers225
9.6Summary228
Questions and assignments229
Bibliographical information231
Chapter 10.Informative discourse233
10.1Introduction233
10.2Academic writing as informative discourse233
10.3Readability in a formula237
10.4The measurement of understanding240
10.5Judging discourse quality242
10.6The improvement of documents246
10.7Summary248
Questions and assignments250
Bibliographical information252
Chapter 11.Narratives253
11.1Introduction253
11.2A philological approach to fairy tales253
11.3Sociolinguistic and interactional approaches255
11.4The psycholinguistic approach259
11.5The organizational approach261
11.6Summary264
Questions and assignments265
Bibliographical information266
Chapter 12.Argumentation and persuasion267
12.1Introduction267
12.2The structure of argumentation268
12.3The pragma-dialectical approach270
12.4The social-psychological approach273
12.5The quality of argumentation in relation to persuasion278
12.6Summary281
Questions and assignments282
Bibliographical information284
Part IV.Special interests
Chapter 13.Discourse and cognition287
13.1Introduction287
13.2Reading and prior knowledge288
13.3Aspects of processing292
13.4Models of comprehension297
13.5Models of text production301
13.6Product and process analysis304
13.7Summary308
Questions and assignments309
Bibliographical information312
Chapter 14.Discourse and institution315
14.1Introduction315
14.2Aspects of institutions316
14.3Politics318
14.4Law322
14.5Bureaucracy327
14.6News media331
14.7Health care337
14.8Summary340
Questions and assignments341
Bibliographical information343
Chapter 15.Discourse and culture345
15.1Introduction345
15.2Linguistic relativity346
15.3Critical Discourse Analysis348
15.4Gender and sexuality352
15.5Racism355
15.6Cross- and intercultural communication359
15.7Summary363
Questions and assignments364
Bibliographical information366
Key to the questions369
References421
Index449
