Pragmatics of Discourse [electronic resource].
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TextSeries: Handbooks of Pragmatics [HOPS]Publication details: Berlin De Gruyter Mouton, 2014Description: 1 online resource (640 p.)ISBN: 9783110214406; 3110214407Subject(s): Discourse analysis -- Social aspects | Conversation analysis | Discourse markers | Pragmatics | FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Miscellaneous | LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics | LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / ReferenceGenre/Form: EBSCO eBooks | Electronic books. DDC classification: 400 LOC classification: P302.84Online resources: EBSCOhost Summary: Discourse is language as it occurs, in any form or context, beyond the speech act. It may be written or spoken, monological or dialogical, but there is always a communicative aim or purpose. The present volume provides systematic orientation in the vast field of studying discourse from a pragmatic perspective. It first gives an overview of a range of approaches developed for the analysis of discourse, including, among others, conversation analysis, genre analysis, functional discourse grammar and corpus-driven approaches. The focus is furthermore on functional units in discourse, such as disco
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Discourse is language as it occurs, in any form or context, beyond the speech act. It may be written or spoken, monological or dialogical, but there is always a communicative aim or purpose. The present volume provides systematic orientation in the vast field of studying discourse from a pragmatic perspective. It first gives an overview of a range of approaches developed for the analysis of discourse, including, among others, conversation analysis, genre analysis, functional discourse grammar and corpus-driven approaches. The focus is furthermore on functional units in discourse, such as disco
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