Renkema The Texture of Discourse

Towards an outline of connectivity theory
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-272-8908-7
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 225 Seiten

The aim of this monograph is to give impetus to research into one of the central questions in discourse studies: what makes a sequence of sentences or utterances a discourse?
The theoretical framework for describing the possibilities of discourse continuation is delineated by two principles: the discursive and the dialogic principle. The ‘chord’ of discourse is unfolded in a tripartite ‘wire’: Conjunction, Adjunction and Interjunction, each containing three aspects, leading to a Connectivity Model. This new three-by-three taxonomy of discourse relations incorporates findings from several theories and approaches that have evolved over the last three decades, including Systemic Functional Linguistics and Rhetorical Structure Theory. In comparing this model to other models, this book presents a state-of-the-art of discourse relation analysis combined with detailed accounts of many examples. This monograph furthermore proposes a new way of presenting discourse structures—in ‘connectivity graphs’—followed by eleven commandments for the segmentation and labeling of discourse, and three procedures for disambiguation if more labels are applicable. This study can provide a base for corpus linguistic analysis on discourse structures, computational approaches to discourse generation and cognitive experimental research of discourse competence.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Renkema, Jan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Textlinguistik, Diskursanalyse, Stilistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Discourse as discursive and dialogic
Chapter 3 Conjunction
Chapter 4 Adjunction
Chapter 5 Interjunction
Chapter 6 The Connectivity Model
Chapter 7 The architecture of the model
Chapter 8 This model and other models
Chapter 9 The representation of discourse
Chapter 10 The interpretation of discourse relations
Chapter 11 Starting the analysis
Chapter 12 Some research examples
References
Author index
Subject index