Widdowson Text, Context, Pretext

Critical Issues in Discourse Analysis
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-75827-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 200 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Language in Society

Written by a leading researcher in the field, this fascinatingexamination of the relations between grammar, text, and discourseis designed to provoke critical discussion on key issues indiscourse analysis which are not always clearly identified andexamined.
* Written by a leading researcher in the field
* Continues the enquiry into discourse analysis that ZelligHarris initiated 50 years ago, which raised a number of problematicissues that have remained unresolved ever since
* Introduces the notion of pretext as an additional factor in thegeneral interpretative process
* Focuses attention specifically on the work of criticaldiscourse analysis (CDA) in light of the issues discussed

Autoren/Hrsg.

Widdowson, H. G.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.
1. Text and discourse.
2. Text and grammar.
3. Context.
4. Context and Co-text.
5. Pretext.
6. Critical discourse analysis.
7. Text and corpus analysis.
8. Analysis and interpretation.
9. Approach and method.
10. Conclusion.
References.
Index of names.
Index of subjects.

Über Autor(innen)

H. G. Widdowson is Honorary Professor at the University of Vienna and Professor Emeritus at the University of London. He is renowned in the fields of applied linguistics and language teaching, and is the author of numerous books and articles, including Defining Issues in English Language Teaching (2002), Linguistics (1996), and Practical Stylistics: An Approach to Poetry (1992).