Function and Genres : Studies on the Linguistic Features of Discourse Types
Overview
Text is a linguistic unit of communication in which linguistically expressed conceptual units are connected in different conceptual structures. The conceptual construal of things, events and relations is structured on the basis of a variety of cognitive and communicational options. These choices form discourse schemas, partly in a culturespecific way. There is a dynamic relationship between schema and instantiation. The volume approaches these questions from a functional perspective, where the processual nature of discourse is as important as its structural character. The volume has two parts: the first one presents theoretical papers, the second deals with certain discourse types, and some linguistic features that characterize specific discourse types.
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- ISBN-13: 9783631561997
- ISBN-10: 3631561997
- Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
- Publish Date: July 2008
- Dimensions: 8.27 x 5.83 x 0.58 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.73 pounds
- Page Count: 274
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