Discourse Analysis: The Sociolinguistic Analysis of Natural Language

by Michael Stubbs

Book Overview

Linguistics has traditionally concentrated on studying single sentences or isolated speech acts. In this book Michael Stubbs explores one of the most promising new directions in contemporary linguistics-the study of many sentences and how they fit together to form discourse. Using many examples drawn from recorded conversations, fieldwork observations, experimental data, and written texts, he discusses such questions as how far discourse structure...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226778339
• ISBN13: 9780226778334
• Release Date: September 1983
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 279 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"

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