Function and Genres: Studies on the Linguistic Features of Discourse Types

Text is a linguistic unit of communication in which linguistically expressed conceptual units are connected in different conceptual structures. The conceptual construal of things, events and relations is structured on the basis of a variety of cognitive and communicational options. These choices form discourse schemas, partly in a culturespecific way. There is a dynamic relationship between schema and instantiation. The volume approaches these questions from a functional perspective, where the processual nature of discourse is as important as its structural character. The volume has two parts: the first one presents theoretical papers, the second deals with certain discourse types, and some linguistic features that characterize specific discourse types.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3631561997
• ISBN13: 9783631561997
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"