Overview

This text presents a variety of approaches to text description that have been proposed in the linguistic literature in the last decade or so. The book is organized to make it easy to understand and compare the various approaches. Since all the researchers are analyzing the same text their differences are readily seen. The text they analyze is a letter, mailed in bulk by a Washington-based lobbying organization which is supported by contributions from donors. Far from simply informing the readers, the letter seeks to appeal to them on many levels, intellectual, emotional and financial.

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Author:   William C. Mann ,  Sandra A. Thompson
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   16
Weight:   0.710kg
ISBN:  

9789027250261

ISBN 10:   902725026
Pages:   409
Publication Date:   08 April 1992
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction; 2. I. Text Organization; 3. Text as Purposive Communication: A Meaning-based Analysis (by Callow, Kathleen); 4. Rhetorical Structure Theory and Text Analysis (by Mann, William C.); 5. An Analysis of a Plea for Money (by Meyer, Bonnie J.F.); 6. The Discourse Strategy of an Appeals Letter (by Longacre, Robert E.); 7. The Notion of Unspecific versus Specific as one Way of Analysing the Information of a Fund-Raising Letter (by Winter, Eugene); 8. An Integrated Three-Pronged Analysis of a Fund-Raising Letter (by Jordan, Michael P.); 9. How I Understand a Text - via the Structure of the Happenings and the Telling of Them (by Pike, Evelyn G.); 10. II. Lexico-Grammatical Approaches to the Text; 11. The Flow of Ideas in a Sample of Written Language (by Chafe, Wallace); 12. The ZPG Letter: Subjects, Definiteness, and Information-status (by Prince, Ellen F.); 13. Some Lexicogrammatical Features of the Zero Population Growth Text (by Halliday, M.A.K.); 14. Macro-Proposals: Meaning by Degree (by Martin, J.R.); 15. Collocation and Field of Discourse (by Benson, James D.)

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