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Author:   Malcolm Coulthard
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.635kg
ISBN:  

9781138139466

ISBN 10:   1138139467
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   01 February 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1 On analysing and evaluating written text 2 Trust the text 3 Signalling in discourse: a functional analysis of a common discourse pattern in written and spoken English 4 Clause relations as information structure: two basic text structures in English 5 Predictive categories in expository text 6 Labelling discourse: an aspect of nominal-group lexical cohesion 7 The text and its message 8 The analysis of fixed expressions in text 9 The construction of knowledge and value in the grammar of scientific discourse, with reference to Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species 10 Frames of reference: contextual monitoring and the interpretation of narrative discourse 11 Inferences in discourse comprehension 12 Narratives of science and nature in popularizing molecular genetics 13 Evaluation and organization in a sample of written academic discourse 14 Genre analysis: an approach to text analysis for ESP 15 On Theme, Rheme and discourse goals 16 Negatives in written text 17 It, this and that 18 The structure of newspaper editorials 19 On reporting reporting: the representation of speech in factual and factional narratives

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Malcolm Coulthard is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Birmingham. His recent publications include three edited collections, Talking about Text, 1986, Discussing Discourse, 1987, Advances in Spoken Discourse Analysis, 1992, and, in Portuguese, Linguagem e sexo and Traduçao: teoria e prática, both published in 1991.

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