speech, writing and thought presentation in a corpus of English writing /
Elena Semino and Mick Short.
New York :
Routledge,
2004.
1 online resource (1 volume)
Routledge advances in corpus linguistics ;
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chapter 1 Introduction -- A corpus-based approach to the study of discourse presentation in written narratives -- chapter 2 Methodology -- The construction and annotation of the corpus -- chapter 3 A revised model of speech, writing and thought presentation -- chapter 4 Speech presentation in the corpus -- A quantitative and qualitative analysis -- chapter 5 Writing presentation in the corpus -- A quantitative and qualitative analysis -- chapter 6 Thought presentation in the corpus -- A quantitative and qualitative analysis -- chapter 7 Specific phenomena in speech, writing and thought presentation -- chapter 8 Case studies of specific texts from the corpus -- chapter 9 Conclusion.
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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 and (
Corpus stylistics.
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English language-- Discourse analysis-- Data processing.
English language-- Spoken English-- Data processing.
English language-- Style-- Data processing.
English language-- Variation-- Data processing.
Narration (Rhetoric)-- Data processing.
Thought and thinking-- Data processing.
English language-- Discourse analysis-- Data processing.
English language-- Spoken English-- Data processing.
English language-- Style-- Data processing.
English language-- Variation-- Data processing.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES-- Linguistics-- General.