Chapter 1 Discourse and Discourse Analysis
1.1 What Is Meant by "Discourse" ?
1.1.1 Terminology: Discourse/Text
1.1.2 Discourse and Grammar
1.1.3 Discourse and Sentence
1.1.4 Discourse in Context
1.1.5 Discourse as Verbal Structure
1.1.6 Discourse as Action and Interaction in Society
1.1.7 Seven Criteria for Textuality
1.2 What Is Meant by "Discourse Analysis"?
1.2.1 The Origins of Discourse Analysis
1.2.2 The Scope of Discourse Analysis
1.2.3 Principles of Discourse Analysis
1.2.4 Major Approaches to Discourse Analysis
Chapter 2 Linguistic Forms and Functions
2.1 Language Functions
2.1.1 Halliday's Theory of Metafunctions
2.1.2 Jakobson's Macro-function
2.1.3 Brown and Yule's Conception
2.2 Spoken Discourse
2.3 Conversation
2.3.1 Rules of Turn-taking
2.3.2 Strategies of Turn-taking
2.3.3 Adjacency Pairs
2.3.4 The Cooperative Principle
2.3.5 Violation of the Maxims
2.4 Written Discourse
2.4.1 Types of Written Discourse
2.4.2 The Patterns in Written Discourse
2.5 Distinctions Between Spoken Discourse and Written Discourse
2.5.1 Differences in the Manner of Production and Reception
2.5.2 Differences in Form
2.5.3 Differences in Function
2.5.4 Differences in Linguistic Characteristics
Chapter 3 Diseourse Structure
3.1 The Linearization Problem
3.2 Information Structure
3.3 Thematization and Staging
3.3.1 Thematization
3.3.2 Staging
3.4 Rank Structure
3.4.1 Lesson
3.4.2 Transaction
3.4.3 Exchange
3.4.4 Move
3.4.5 Act
3.5 Narration
3.5.1 The Concept of Narration
3.5.2 The Labov Model
3.5.3 Analyzing a Narrative Discourse
3.6 Argumentation
3.6.1 The Concept of Argumentation
3.6.2 The Basic Reasoning Pattern in Argumentation
3.6.3 The Basic Structure of Argumentation
3.6.4 Analyzing an Argumentative Discourse
Chapter 4 Cohesion and Coherence in Discourse
4.1 Cohesion
4.1.1 Text and Texture
4.1.2 Cohesion and Cohesive Ties
4.1.3 Classification of Cohesive Ties
4.2 Coherence
4.2.1 Topics in Discourse
4.2.2 General Knowledge
4.2.3 Principle of Analogy
4.2.4 Speech Act
4.2.5 Conversational Implicature
Chapter 5 Discourse Context
5.1 Notions of Context
5.1.1 From the Perspective of Linguistics
5.1.2 From the Perspective of Culture
5.1.3 From the Perspective of Cognition
5.2 Functions of Context
5.2.1 Restrictive Function
5.2.2 Explanatory and Filtering Function
5.2.3 Designing Function
Chapter 6 Discourse, Culture and Society
6.1 Discourse and Culture
6.1.1 Definitions of Culture
6.1.2 Culture as Knowledge
6.1.3 Culture as Communication
6.1.4 Culture as Behavior
6.1.5 Culture as a System of Practices
6.1.6 Discourse in Culture and Culture in Discourse
6.1.7 Speech Communities
6.1.8 Discourse Communities
6.2 Discourse and Society
6.2.1 Discourse in Society and Society in Discourse
6.2.2 Discourse and Power
6.2.3 Discourse and Ideology
Chapter 7 Discourse and Cognition
7.1 Discourse Comprehension
7.1.1 World Knowledge
7.1.2 Top-down and Bottom-up Processing
7.1.3 Knowledge Structure: Schemata, Frames and Scripts
7.2 Social Cognitiori
7.2.1 Mentalist Social Cognition
7.2.2 Sociocultural Cognition
7.3 Cognition and Cognitive Models
7.3.1 Cognition
7.3.2 Categorization
7.3.3 Prototypes and Prototype Effects
7.3.4 Idealized Cognitive Models (ICMs)
7.3.5 Cognitive Models of Discourse Comprehension
Chapter 8 How to Analyze Discourse
8.1 Stage One: Research Questions
8.2 Stage Two: Sample Selection
8.3 Stage Three: Collection of Records and Documents
8.4 Stage Four: Interviews
8.5 Stage Five: Transcription
8.6 Stage Six: Coding
8.7 Stage Seven: Analysis
8.8 Stage Eight: Validation
8.9 Stage Nine: The Report
8.10 Stage Ten: Application
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