
By Klaus P. Schneider, Anne Barron
ISBN-10: 3110214393
ISBN-13: 9783110214390
Discourse is language because it happens, in any shape or context, past the speech act. it can be written or spoken, monological or dialogical, yet there's regularly a communicative target or goal. the current quantity presents systematic orientation within the massive box of learning discourse from a realistic point of view. It first provides an summary of more than a few techniques built for the research of discourse, together with, between others, dialog research, style research, useful discourse grammar and corpus-driven techniques. the point of interest is additionally on useful devices in discourse, resembling discourse markers, speech act sequences, interactional strikes and stages, and likewise silence. eventually, the amount examines forms of discourse (e.g. narratives, provider encounters, press releases) in a variety of discourse domain names (e.g. scientific contexts, the media, education). each one article surveys the present state-of-the-art of the respective subject region whereas additionally proposing new study findings.