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Text Type and Texture (Functional Linguistics) | 
 enlarge | Creators: Gail Forey, Geoff Thompson
Publisher: Equinox Publishing
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 6426073
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
ISBN: 1845532147
Dewey Decimal Number: 401.41
EAN: 9781845532147
ASIN: 1845532147
Publication Date: November 3, 2008
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Product Description
Texture - the quality that makes a text 'hang together' as a text - is a key focus of investigation in discourse analysis. This volume provides a systematic overview of recent research on textual resources that are used to construct texture, and on the ways in which these resources are deployed differently in different text types. Theme is the major resource that is explored in the first part of this book. The opening papers set out the current understanding of Theme and explore aspects of the concept that remain controversial in the field. This is followed by an examination of thematic choices in a range of text types. Issues raised include the different kinds of meanings appearing in Theme that are particularly significant for each genre, the ways in which these relate to the broader socio-cultural context, and the ways in which thematic choices interact with other kinds of texturing. In the second part of the collection, the scope widens to include an examination of other resources, particularly the contribution to texture made by patterns of interpersonal choices, in Theme and more broadly, across texts as a whole. The volume closes with an overview and illustration of a methodological approach by which our understanding of texturing can be further extended.
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