Discourse on the Move
Using corpus analysis to describe discourse structure
1st Edition
Published on 19. September 2007
XII, 290 pages
978-90-272-9191-2 (ISBN)
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Discourse on the Move is the first book-length exploration of how corpus-based methods can be used for discourse analysis, applied to the description of discourse organization. The primary goal is to bring these two analytical perspectives together: undertaking a detailed discourse analysis of each individual text, but doing so in terms that can be generalized across all texts of a corpus. The book explores two major approaches to this task: 'top-down' and 'bottom-up'. In the 'top-down' approach, the functional components of a genre are determined first, and then all texts in a corpus are analyzed in terms of those components. In contrast, textual components emerge from the corpus analysis in the bottom-up approach, and the discourse organization of individual texts is then analyzed in terms of linguistically-defined textual categories. Both approaches are illustrated through case studies of discourse structure in particular genres: fund-raising letters, biology/biochemistry research articles, and university classroom teaching.
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Douglas Biber | Ulla Connor | Thomas A. Upton
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Using corpus analysis to describe discourse structure
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- Discourse on the Move
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- Table of contents
- Preface
- 1. Discourse analysis and corpus linguistics
- 1 Discourse and discourse analysis
- 1.1 Discourse studies of language use
- 1.2 Discourse studies of linguistic structure 'beyond the sentence'
- 1.3 Discourse studies of social practices and ideological assumptions associated with communication
- 1.4 "Register" and "genre" perspectives on discourse
- 1.5 Identifying structural units in discourse
- 2 Corpus-based investigation of discourse structure
- 3 Top-down versus bottom-up corpus-based approaches to discourse analysis
- 3.1 Examples of top-down analyses of discourse
- 3.2 Example of bottom-up approach
- 4 Creating a specialized corpus for discourse analysis
- 5 Overview of the book
- Part I. Top-down analyses of discourse organization
- 2. Introduction to move analysis
- 1 Background
- 2 Swales' move analysis of research articles
- 3 Move analysis of research articles applied across genres
- 3.1 Description and examples
- 3.2 Summary of previous research on move analysis
- 4 Overview of the methods for move analysis
- 4.1 General steps of a move analysis
- 4.2 Inter-rater reliability
- 5 Using a corpus-based approach to move analysis
- 5.1 Corpus-based move analysis
- 5.2 General advantages of corpus-based approaches to discourse analysis
- 5.3 Specific advantages of a corpus-based perspective for move analysis
- 5.3.1 Identifying linguistic features of moves
- 5.3.2 Move frequencies and lengths
- 5.3.3 Mapping move use and locations
- 5.3.4 Genre prototypes
- 6 Summary
- 3. Identifying and analyzing rhetorical moves in philanthropic discourse
- 1 Background
- 2 A specialized corpus of fundraising texts
- 3 Determining and analyzing discourse moves: Direct mail letters
- 3.1 Previous analysis of direct mail letters
- 3.2 A move analysis of fundraising letters: Background and methodology
- 3.2.1 Move types
- 3.2.2 Structural elements
- 3.3 Analysis
- 3.4 Results
- 3.5 Discussion
- 3.6 Letter prototypes
- 4 Linguistic analysis of moves: Tracking the use of stance structures
- 4.1 Identifying grammatical stance devices
- 4.2 Interpreting the use of grammatical stance devices used in moves
- 5 Final thoughts
- 4. Rhetorical moves in biochemistry research articles
- 1 Background
- 2 Description of the corpus
- 3 Determining the move categories in the genre of biochemistry research articles
- 3.1 The Introduction section
- 3.2 The Methods section
- 3.3 The Results section
- 3.4 The Discussion section
- 4 Coding moves in the corpus of biochemistry research articles
- 5 Distribution of move types within texts from the biochemistry corpus
- 6 Linguistic characteristics of rhetorical moves in biochemistry research articles
- 7 Linguistic variation among move categories in biochemistry research articles
- 8 Multi-dimensional variation among move types within the same section
- 5. Rhetorical appeals in fundraising
- 1 Elements of Persuasion
- 2 Determining and analyzing rhetorical appeals
- 2.1 Rational appeals (Logos)
- 2.2 Credibility appeals (Ethos)
- 2.3 Affective appeals (Pathos)
- 3 Analysis, segmentation, and classification
- 3.1 Results and discussion
- 4 Linguistic description of appeals
- 4.1 Wordlists
- 4.2 Keywords
- 5 Appeals and discourse structure of letters
- 6 Conclusion
- Part II. Bottom-up analyses of discourse organization
- 6. Introduction to the identification and analysis of vocabulary-based discourse units
- 1 Conceptual introduction to VBDUs
- 2 Automatic identification of VBDUs in texts
- 3 Perceptual correlates of VBDUs
- 4 Using VBDUs to analyze the discourse structure of texts
- 5 Going one step further: Identifying generalizable VBDU 'types'
- 7. Vocabulary-based discourse units in biology research articles
- 1 Constructing the corpus of VBDUs
- 2 Analyzing the linguistic characteristics of VBDUs: Multi-dimensional analysis
- 3 Comparing the multi-dimensional characteristics of research article sections
- 4 The multi-dimensional profile of VBDUs within a research article: Tracking the movement of discourse
- 5 Identifying and interpreting the multi-dimensional text types of biology research articles
- 6 Using VBDU text types to describe the discourse organizational patterns of biology research articles
- 7 Starting and ending research article sections
- 7.1 Describing the typical discourse organizations of Introductions
- 7.2 Describing the typical discourse organizations of methods sections
- 7.3 Describing the typical discourse organizations of discussion sections
- 8 Preferred text type sequences across research article section boundaries
- 9 Comparing the preferred discourse styles of research journals
- 10 Conclusion
- 8. Vocabulary-based discourse units in university class sessions
- 1 From constructing a corpus of VBDUs to identifying VBDU text-types
- 1.1 Constructing a corpus of VBDUs
- 1.2 Analyzing the linguistic characteristics of VBDUs applying MD analytical techniques
- 1.3 VBDUs and dimension scores: the multi-dimensional profile of the first three VBDUs of a business management class
- 2 Dimension scores and VBDU text-types
- 2.1 Interpreting the clusters as VBDU types based on their linguistic characteristics
- 2.1.1 Cluster 1: Personalized framing
- 2.1.2 Cluster 2: Informational monologue
- 2.1.3 Cluster 3: Contextual interactive
- 2.1.4 Cluster 4: Unmarked
- 3 From VBDU text-types to discourse structure
- 3.1 Functional interpretation of VBDU types
- 3.2 Text as sequences of VBDU types
- 4 Summary and conclusion
- 9. Conclusion
- 1 Overview
- 2 Comparing the top-down and bottom-up descriptions of biology research articles.
- 2.1 Discourse units in biology research articles
- 2.2 The dimensions of linguistic variation in biology research articles
- 2.3 The functional and linguistic characteristics of the discourse types (move types vs VBDU types) in biology research articles
- 2.4 Description of the typical discourse organization of biology research articles
- 3 Summary and prospects for future research
- Appendix 1
- Appendix 2:
- References
- Index
- The series Studies in Corpus Linguistics
