Patterns of Text
In honour of Michael Hoey
Published on 27. February 2001
Book
Hardback
323 pages
978-90-272-2572-6 (ISBN)
Description
It is increasingly clear that, in order to understand language as a phenomenon, we must understand the phenomenon of text. Our primary experience of language comes in the form of texts, which embody the complete communicative events through which our language-using lives are lived. These events are shaped by communicative needs, and this shaping is reflected in certain characteristic patterns in the texts. However, the nature of texts and text is still elusive: we know which forms are typically found in text but we do not yet have a full grasp of how they constitute its textuality, how they make a text "tick". The twelve contributions to this volume show how texts across a wide range of text types hold together by different patterns of chunking and linking. The common purpose in all the contributions is to explore the nature of text patterning as the functional environment within which language operates.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
570 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-2572-6 (9789027225726)
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Content
1. Acknowledgements; 2. Introduction: Why 'patterns of text'?; 3. Colligation, lexis, pattern, and text (by Hunston, Susan); 4. Lexical signals of word relations (by Renouf, Antoinette); 5. Patterns of cohesion in spoken text (by Thompson, Susan); 6. Issues in modelling the textual metafunction (by Fries, Peter H.); 7. Mapping key words to problem and solution (by Scott, Mike); 8. The negotiation of evaluation in written text (by Bolivar, Adriana); 9. Some discourse patterns and signalling of theassessment-basis relation (by Jordan, Michael P.); 10. Repeat after me: The role of repetition in the life of an emergent reader (by Darnton, Ann); 11. Lexical segments in text (by Berber Sardinha, Tony); 12. Patterns of lexis on the surface of texts (by Coulthard, Malcolm); 13. Patterns of text in teacher education (by Edge, Julian); 14. The deification of information (by Sinclair, John McH.); 15. Name Index; 16. Subject Index