{"product_id":"modes-of-discourse-the-local-structure-of-texts-hardback-9780521781695","title":"Modes of Discourse; The Local Structure of Texts (Hardback) 9780521781695","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eModes of Discourse\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Local Structure of Texts\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis study of discourse modes offers a new fruitful level of analysis.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCarlota S. Smith (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521781695, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 17 April 2003\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e336 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.667 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn 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. These are realized at the level of the passage, and cut across genre lines. Smith shows that the modes, intuitively recognizable as distinct, have linguistic correlates that differentiate them. She analyzes the properties that distinguish each mode, focusing on grammatical rather than lexical information. The book also examines linguistically based features that appear in passages of all five modes: topic and focus, variation in syntactic structure, and subjectivity, or point of view. Operating at the interface of syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, the book will appeal to researchers and graduate students in linguistics, stylistics and rhetoric.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Discourse Structure: 1. Introduction to the discourse modes\u003cbr\u003e 2. Discourse modes\u003cbr\u003e 3. Text representation and understanding\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Linguistic Analysis of the Discourse Modes: 4. Aspectual information: the entities introduced in discourse\u003cbr\u003e 5. Temporal and spatial progression\u003cbr\u003e 6. Referring expressions in discourse\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Surface Presentational Factors: Introduction to Part III\u003cbr\u003e 7. Subjectivity in texts\u003cbr\u003e 8. The contribution of surface presentation\u003cbr\u003e 9. Non-canonical structures and presentation\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Discourse Modes and their Context: 10. Information in text passages\u003cbr\u003e 11. Discourse structure and discourse modes\u003cbr\u003e Appendix A. The texts\u003cbr\u003e Appendix B. Glossary.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Linguistics [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Linguistics\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Linguistics%20%5BCF%5D%22\"\u003eCF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46265074712856,"sku":"9780521781695","price":99.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521781695i.jpg?v=1692019237","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/modes-of-discourse-the-local-structure-of-texts-hardback-9780521781695","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}