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OverviewThis 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: William C. Mann , Sandra A. ThompsonPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co Imprint: John Benjamins Publishing Co Volume: 16 Weight: 0.710kg ISBN: 9789027250261ISBN 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  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents1. 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.)ReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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