Discourse Patterns in Spoken and Written Corpora

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of Contributors vii
4. Discourse Patterns in Spoken and Written Corpora 1
5. I. Cohesion and Coherence
6. The Cataphoric Indexicality of Titles 17
7. Cataphoric Complexity in Spoken English 39
8. The Role of Multiple Themes in Cohesion 65
9. Dialogical coherence? Patterns of cohesion in face-to-face conversation and e-mail mailing list messages 89
10. II. Metadiscourse and Discourse markers
11. Gestural and Symbolic Uses of the Deictic “here” in Academic Lectures 113
12. The Discourse Function of Contrastive Connectors in Academic Abstracts 139
13. The Discourse Functions of I don’t know in English Conversation 157
14. They’re a Little Bit Different … Observations on Hedges in Academic Talk 173
15. Interaction in Written Economics Lectures 199
16. III. Text and Information Structure
17. Using Non-extraposition in Spoken and Written Texts 219
18. IV. Metaphor and Text
19. English Metaphors and Their Translation 245
20. Index of names 267
21. Index of terms 271