ENGLISH

Modes of Discourse: The Local Structure of Texts

By Carlota S. Smith

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2003
ISBN
0521781698, 9780521781695, 9780511066931
LCC
P302 .S539 2003
Google Books ID
9PokjuBxu58C
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1537100 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
Pages
336\336
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07
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Description

In studying discourse, the problem for the linguist is to find a fruitful level of analysis. Carlota Smith offers a new approach with this study of discourse passages, units of several sentences or more. She introduces the key idea of the "Discourse Mode", identifying five modes: Narrative, Description, Report, Information, Argument. Smith analyzes the properties that distinguish each mode, focusing on grammatical rather than lexical information. The book also examines presentational matters: topic and focus; variation in syntactic structure; and subjectivity, or point of view.

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