This work offers a clear account of written discourse analysis. Hoey clearly sets out his own approach and compares it with other approaches. Each chapter introduces key concepts and analytical techniques, describes important parallel work and major issues, and suggests how to a…
Of the characteristics of Problem-Solution patternsBibliographical end-notes; 8 Other culturally popular patterns; Introduction; The limitations of Problem-Solution patterning; The Goal-Achievement pattern; The Opportunity-Taking pattern; The Desire Arousal-Fulfilment pattern; T…
"In this book, Hoey analyses a wide variety of narrative texts: fairy-tales, novels, poems, short stories, jokes; and non-narrative texts: posters, timetables, till receipts. He shows how much these very different text types have in common with each other and argues that, in the…
This work offers a clear account of written discourse analysis. Each chapter introduces key concepts and analytical techniques, describes important parallel work and major issues, and suggests how to apply the ideas to teaching and learning.
Bringing together original contributions by internationally renowned authors, the chapters include coverage of the lexical printing theory, parole-linguistics, a four-part model of language system and language use, and the concept of local textual functions.