Serves as an introduction to discourse analysis. Intended for students, this book examines different approaches to discourse, looking at discourse and society, discourse and pragmatics, discourse and genre, discourse and conversation, discourse grammar, corpus-based approaches t…
Understanding genre as a dynamic process rather than a set of stable rules, this book explores: the relation of simple to complex genres; the history of literary genre in theory; the generic organisation of implied meanings; the structuring of interpretation by genre; and the us…
Offers perspectives on the nature of narrative and narrativity, genre theory, narrative semiotics and communication theory. This book includes contributions, which center on the specificity of literary fiction, and the chapters investigate a different dimension of narrativity wi…
Themes play a central role in our everyday communication: we have to know what a text is about in order to understand it. Intended meaning cannot be understood without some knowledge of the underlying theme. This book helps to define the concept of "themes" in texts and how they…
Genre theory in the past few years has contributed immensely to our understanding of the way discourse is used in academic, professional and institutional contexts. However, its development has been constrained by the nature and design of its applications, which have invariably …
