Modes of Discourse: The Local Structure of TextsCambridge University Press, 17 apr 2003 - 320 pagina's In studying discourse, the problem for the linguist is to find a fruitful level of analysis. Carlota Smith offers a new approach with this study of discourse passages, units of several sentences or more. She introduces the key idea of the 'Discourse Mode', identifying five modes: Narrative, Description, Report, Information, Argument. These are realized at the level of the passage, and cut across genre lines. Smith shows that the modes, intuitively recognizable as distinct, have linguistic correlates that differentiate them. She analyzes the properties that distinguish each mode, focusing on grammatical rather than lexical information. The book also examines linguistically based features that appear in passages of all five modes: topic and focus, variation in syntactic structure, and subjectivity, or point of view. Operating at the interface of syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, the book will appeal to researchers and graduate students in linguistics, stylistics and rhetoric. |
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II Linguistic analysis of the Discourse Modes | 65 |
III Surface presentational factors | 153 |
IV Discourse Modes and their context | 241 |
The texts | 267 |
Glossary | 286 |
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Abstract Entities adverbial Anaphora antecedent appear argument aspectual atelic background bounded events Chapter clausal cleft cleft sentence complement clause compositional rules construction rules context contrast convey coreference coreferential deictic Deixis Description discourse entity Discourse Modes discourse relations Discourse Representation Structure Discourse Representation Theory discussed durative dynamic English Eritrea evidential examples factors familiarity status focus phrase focuses fragment function genres grammatical identified indicate inference instance introduced John language lexical linguistic linguistic forms main clause Mary Mary read modal morphemes non-canonical notion paragraph pattern perfective viewpoint perspective poset pragmatic predicates preposed present Primary Referent principle pronouns proposition referring expressions reflexive relative clauses Report Responsible Source rhetorical rhetorical modes scope semantic sentence accent sentence topics shift situation entities situation type spatial speaker Statives surface structure syntactic structure telic temporal location tense interpretation text passages text progression thematic role topic phrase trigger VCON verb constellation