Working With Discourse: Meaning Beyond the Clause

by J.R. Martin, Robin Fawcett, David Rose

This book is for researchers and students interested in exploring how speakers and writers construe meaning through discourse. It draws on tools for discourse analysis developed in systemic functional linguistics and register and genre theory but requires no prior knowledge of functional linguistics, avoiding academic complexity wherever possible. Rather it builds a highly accessible set of analytic tools that can be used with ease by workers from a range of disciplines, including educational research, critical discourse analysis, cultural studies, text linguistics and language and literacy teaching.

Genres: Linguistics

293 pages, Hardcover

First published April 3, 2003

Reviews

[Nick · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a simplified and more appliable version of Martin's much overlooked English Text (see my review). It takes the same discourse semantics approach to discourse analysis and illustrates how it can be applied to various real-life texts. Using systemic functional networks it reveals how analysis of text relates to context and genre - a claim that few close grammatical analyses of text can make.

[Nurunnazipah]

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