Overview

It is increasingly clear that, in order to understand language as a phenomenon, we must understand the phenomenon of text. Our primary experience of language comes in the form of texts, which embody the complete communicative events through which our language-using lives are lived. These events are shaped by communicative needs, and this shaping is reflected in certain characteristic patterns in the texts. However, the nature of texts and text is still elusive: we know which forms are typically found in text but we do not yet have a full grasp of how they constitute its textuality, how they make a text “tick”. The twelve contributions to this volume show how texts across a wide range of text types hold together by different patterns of chunking and linking. The common purpose in all the contributions is to explore the nature of text patterning as the functional environment within which language operates.

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Author:   Mike Scott (University of Liverpool) ,  Geoff Thompson (University of Liverpool)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Weight:   0.570kg
ISBN:  

9789027225726

ISBN 10:   9027225729
Pages:   323
Publication Date:   27 February 2001
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Acknowledgements; 2. Introduction: Why 'patterns of text'?; 3. Colligation, lexis, pattern, and text (by Hunston, Susan); 4. Lexical signals of word relations (by Renouf, Antoinette); 5. Patterns of cohesion in spoken text (by Thompson, Susan); 6. Issues in modelling the textual metafunction (by Fries, Peter H.); 7. Mapping key words to problem and solution (by Scott, Mike); 8. The negotiation of evaluation in written text (by Bolivar, Adriana); 9. Some discourse patterns and signalling of theassessment-basis relation (by Jordan, Michael P.); 10. Repeat after me: The role of repetition in the life of an emergent reader (by Darnton, Ann); 11. Lexical segments in text (by Berber Sardinha, Tony); 12. Patterns of lexis on the surface of texts (by Coulthard, Malcolm); 13. Patterns of text in teacher education (by Edge, Julian); 14. The deification of information (by Sinclair, John McH.); 15. Name Index; 16. Subject Index

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