Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-285) and index.
Discourse on the Move; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface; 1. Discourse analysis and corpus linguistics; Part I. Top-down analyses of discourse organization; 2. Introduction to move analysis; 3. Identifying and analyzing rhetorical moves in philanthropic discourse; 4. Rhetorical moves in biochemistry research articles; 5. Rhetorical appeals in fundraising; Part II. Bottom-up analyses of discourse organization; 6. Introduction to the identification and analysis of vocabulary-based discourse units; 7. Vocabulary-based discourse units in biology research articles.
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Discourse on the Move is the first book-length exploration of how corpus-based methods can be used for discourse analysis, applied to the description of discourse organization. The primary goal is to bring these two analytical perspectives together: undertaking a detailed discourse analysis of each individual text, but doing so in terms that can be generalized across all texts of a corpus. The book explores two major approaches to this task: 'top-down' and 'bottom-up'. In the 'top-down' approach, the functional components of a genre are determined first, and then all texts in a corpus are anal.