Genre, frames and writing in research settings
Genre, frames, and writing in research settings
Genre, frames, and writing in research settings
Genre, frames, and writing in research settings
Genre, frames, and writing in research settings
Genre, frames and writing in research settings
Genre, frames and writing in research settings
Genre, frames, and writing in research settings
This book attempts to develop a perspective on genre which incorporates the aspect of what leads users of a language to recognise a communicative event as an instance of a particular genre.
Genre, frames, and writing in research settings
This book presents a perspective on genre based on what it is that leads users of a language to recognise a communicative event as an instance of a particular genre. Key notions in this perspective are those of prototype, inheritance, and intertextuality; that is, the extent to …
How do words mean? What is the nature of meaning? How can we grasp a word's meaning? The frame-semantic approach developed in this book offers some well-founded answers to such long-standing, but still controversial issues. Following Charles Fillmore's definition of frames as bo…
This book explains a well-known puzzle that helped catalyze the establishment of generative syntax: how children tease apart the different syntactic structures associated with sentences like John is easy/eager to please. The answer lies in animacy: taking the premise that subjec…