Details

Subjects:

English language -- Discourse analysis -- Data processing.
English language -- Spoken English -- Data processing.
English language -- Variation -- Data processing.
English language -- Style -- Data processing.
Thought and thinking -- Data processing.
Narration (Rhetoric) -- Data processing.

Form/Genre:

Electronic books.

Language:

English

Summary:

This book combines stylistic analysis with corpus linguistics to present an innovative account of the phenomenon of speech, writing and thought presentation - commonly referred to as 'speech reporting' or 'discourse presentation'. This new account is based on an extensive analysis of a quarter-of-a-million word electronic collection of written narrative texts, including both fiction and non-fiction. The book includes detailed discussions of:The construction of this corpus of late twentieth-century written British narratives taken from fiction, newspaper news reports ...

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction: a corpus-based approach to the study of discourse presentation in written narratives; Methodology: the construction and annotation of the corpus; A revised model of speech, writing and thought presentation; Speech presentation in the corpus: a quantitative and qualitative analysis; Writing presentation in the corpus: a quantitative and qualitative analysis; Thought presentation in the corpus: a quantitative and qualitative analysis; Specific phenomena in speech, writing and thought presentation.
Case studies of specific texts from the corpus Conclusion; List of texts sampled; The SWTP tagset; Alphabetical list of reporting verbs for Indirect Speech presentation; Alphabetical list of reporting verbs for Direct Speech presentation; Alphabetical list of reporting verbs for Indirect Writing presentation; Alphabetical list of reporting verbs for Direct Writing presentation; Alphabetical list of reporting verbs for Direct Thought presentation; Alphabetical list of reporting verbs for Indirect Thought presentation; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [246]-250) and index.

Contributor:

Short, Mick.

ISBN:

1-134-44719-1
0-203-59997-7
1-134-44720-5
1-280-05639-8
0-203-49407-5

OCLC:

437055212

Publisher Number:

10.4324/9780203494073 doi