Modes of Discourse: The Local Structure of Texts
Carlota S. Smith
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. Smith analyzes the properties that distinguish each mode, focusing on grammatical rather than lexical information. The book also examines presentational matters: topic and focus; variation in syntactic structure; and subjectivity, or point of view.
카테고리:
년:
2003
출판사:
Cambridge University Press
언어:
english
페이지:
336
ISBN 10:
0521781698
ISBN 13:
9780521781695
시리즈:
Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
파일:
PDF, 1.47 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2003