Introduction to Discourse Studies: New edition

Introduction to Discourse Studies
Title page
Copyright page
Table of contents
Advisory board for ‘Introduction to discourse studies’
Preface
1. Introduction
	1.1 A rough definition of discourse studies
	1.2 Aim and structure of this book
	1.3 The presentation of the material
	Questions and assignments
	Bibliographical information
Part I. General orientation
2. The pragmatic framework
	2.1 Introduction
	2.2 The Organon model
	2.3 Speech act theory
		2.3.1 Types of speech acts and felicity conditions
		2.3.2 Illocutions in discourse
	2.4 The cooperative principle
	2.5 Relevance theory
	2.6 Politeness theory
	2.7 Summary
	Questions and assignments
	Bibliographical information
3. Discourse in communication
	3.1 Introduction
	3.2 Pragmatics and semiotics
	3.3 Social rules for symbolic interaction
	3.4 Sender and receiver in communication theory
	3.5 The discourse situation
	3.6 The socio-semiotic approach of Functional Grammar
	3.7 What makes discourse discourse?
	3.8 Summary
	Questions and assignments
	Bibliographical information
Part II. Backpacking for a journey into discourse studies
4. Discourse classification
	4.1 Introduction
	4.2 Typologies of discourse
	4.3 Written language and spoken interaction
	4.4 Genre theory and analysis
	4.5 Multimodality
	4.6 Electronic discourse
		4.6.1 General characteristics of computer-mediated discourse
			a. Written speech or spoken writing?
			b. What is new in netspeak?
			c. Electronic language use
		4.6.2 Hypertext
		4.6.3 Online genres
	4.7 Summary
	Questions and assignments
	Bibliographical information
5. Structured content
	5.1 Introduction
	5.2 Propositions
	5.3 Sentence and discourse topics
	5.4 Macrostructures
		a. Deletion rule
		b. Generalization rule
		c. Construction rule
	5.5 Superstructures
	5.6 Concept-based approaches to discourse content
		a. Topic boundaries
		b. Topic identification
		c. Topic development
	5.7 Summary
	Questions and assignments
	Bibliographical information
6. Discourse connections
	6.1 Introduction
	6.2 Cohesion
		6.2.1 Types of cohesive ties
			a. Substitution
			b. Ellipsis
			c. Reference
			d. Conjunction
			e. Lexical cohesion
		6.2.2 Referential elements
	6.3 Coherence
	6.4 Rhetorical Structure Theory
	6.5 Discourse relation research
	6.6 Connectivity theory
	6.7 Summary
	Questions and assignments
	Bibliographical information
7. Contextual phenomena
	7.1 Introduction
	7.2 Approaches to context
		a. Social and sociocultural context
		b. Linguistic context (or co-text)
		c. Cognitive context
	7.3 Deixis
		a. Person deixis
		b. Place deixis
		c. Time deixis
		d. Discourse deixis
		e. Social deixis
		f. Emotional deixis
	7.4 Information management
		7.4.1 Staging
		7.4.2 Given and new information
	7.5 Perspectivization
		a. Vision
		b. Focalization
		c. Empathy
	7.6 Implicit meaning
		7.6.1 Presuppositions
		7.6.2 Inferences
	7.7 Summary
	Questions and assignments
	Bibliographical information
8. Style and stylistics
	8.1 Introduction
	8.2 Form, content and situation
	8.3 Views on style
		a. Style as a possible form for a specific content
		b. Style as a choice of specific patterns
		c. Style as a deviation from expectations
	8.4 Normative and objective analysis
		a. The normative approach
		b. The objective approach
	8.5 Everyday and literary language
	8.6 Contemporary approaches to stylistics
		8.6.1 Corpus stylistics
		8.6.2 Pragmatic stylistics
		8.6.3 Cognitive Poetics
	8.7 Summary
	Questions and assignments
	Bibliographical information
Part III. Special modes of communication
9. Conversation analysis
	9.1 Introduction
	9.2 Transcription methods
	9.3 The turn-taking model
	9.4 Sequential organization
	9.5 Discourse markers
	9.6 Summary
	Questions and assignments
	Bibliographical information
10. Informative discourse
	10.1 Introduction
	10.2 Academic writing as informative discourse
	10.3 Readability in a formula
	10.4 The measurement of understanding
	10.5 Judging discourse quality
	10.6 The improvement of documents
	10.7 Summary
	Questions and assignments
	Bibliographical information
11. Narratives
	11.1 Introduction
	11.2 A philological approach to fairy tales
	11.3 Sociolinguistic and interactional approaches
	11.4 The psycholinguistic approach
	11.5 The organizational approach
	11.6 Summary
	Questions and assignments
	Bibliographical information
12 . Argumentation and persuasion
	12.1 Introduction
	12.2 The structure of argumentation
	12.3 The pragma-dialectical approach
	12.4 The social-psychological approach
	12.5 The quality of argumentation in relation to persuasion
	12.6 Summary
	Questions and assignments
	Bibliographical information
Part IV. Special interests
13. Discourse and cognition
	13.1 Introduction
	13.2 Reading and prior knowledge
	13.3 Aspects of processing
		a. Three levels of representation
		b. The cyclical processing of propositions
		c. Frames, scripts and scenarios as different knowledge systems
		d. The interplay between semantics and pragmatics
	13.4 Models of comprehension
	13.5 Models of text production
	13.6 Product and process analysis
	13.7 Summary
	Questions and assignments
	Bibliographical information
14. Discourse and institution
	14.1 Introduction
	14.2 Aspects of institutions
		a. Role behavior
		b. Differentiation trends
		c. Institutional power
	14.3 Politics
		a. The need for modification
		b. The need for persuasion
	14.4 Law
		a. Characteristics of judicial interaction
		b. Legal documents and genre integrity
		c. Forensic linguistics
	14.5 Bureaucracy
		a. Research on effective governmental documents
		b. Research on government image
	14.6 News media
		a. The production of news
		b. The perception of news
	14.7 Health care
		a. Stylistic analysis of therapeutic discourse
		b. Power relations in doctor-patient interaction
	14.8 Summary
	Questions and assignments
	Bibliographical information
15. Discourse and culture
	15.1 Introduction
	15.2 Linguistic relativity
	15.3 Critical Discourse Analysis
	15.4 Gender and sexuality
	15.5 Racism
	15.6 Cross- and intercultural communication
	15.7 Summary
	Questions and assignments
	Bibliographical information
Key to the questions
	Answers Chapter 1
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References
Index