Discourse Analysis: The Sociolinguistic Analysis of Natural Language (Language in Society, 4)
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Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0226778339
ISBN 13
9780226778334
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Publication Year
1983
Publisher
Pages
279
Description
Linguistics has traditionally concentrated on studying single sentences or isolated speech acts. In this book Michael Stubbs explores one of the most promising new directions in contemporary linguistics—the study of many sentences and how they fit together to form discourse. Using many examples drawn from recorded conversations, fieldwork observations, experimental data, and written texts, he discusses such questions as how far discourse structure is comparable to sentence structure; whether it is possible to talk of "well formed" discourse as one does of "grammatical" sentences; and whether the relation between question and answer in conversation is syntactic, semantic, or pragmatic. - from Amzon
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1
