Chapter 1 Coming to Grips with Discourse Analysis
1.1 Introduction
1.1.1 Formalism and functionalism
1.1.2 Anything beyond the sentence
1.1.3 Discourse: language use
1.1.4 Discourse: utterances
1.2 Discourse analysis
1.2.1 Introduction
1.2.2 Discourse
1.2.3 Analysis
1.3 Terms issue
1.4 The significance of discourse analysis
1.4.1 Limitations of sentence grammar
1.4.2 Understanding the nature of language
1.4.3 Understanding discourse itself
1.4.4 Two levels of achievement in discourse analysis
1.4.5 Summary: some uses of discourse analysis
1.5 The scope of discourse analysis
1.6 Principles of discourse analysis
1.6.1 Introduction and classification
1.6.2 Principles of discourse analysis：language as social interaction
1.6.3 Text-linguistic perspectives on discourse
1.7 Approaches to discourse analysis
1.7.1 Mchoul
1.7.2 Schiffrin
1.8 Research methods in discourse analysis
1.8.1 Research design (A sample)
1.8.2 Nature of data
1.8.3 Sources of discourse data
1.9 Resources for doing discourse analysis
1.9.1 Online resources
1.9.2 Major journals publishing discourse research
Chapter 2 A Historical Overview of Discourse Analysis
2.1 Historical background
2.1.1 Plato ＆Aristotle
2.1.2 The ancient distinction between grammar (grammatical) and rhetoric (rhetorical)
2.1.3 The emergence of historical and comparative linguistics at the beginning of the 19th century
2.1.4 The birth of structural linguistics at the beginning of the 20th century
2.2 The origins of modern discourse analysis
2.2.1 Europe
2.2.2 America
2.3 The emergence of discourse analysis as a new discipline
2.3.1 Sociolinguistics
2.3.2 Philosophy of language or pragmatics
2.3.3 Text grammar
2.3.4 Artificial intelligence
2.3.5 Sociology: American ethnomethodologists
2.4 The interdisciplinary study of discourse
2.5 The 1990s
2.5.1 Shift from structural to functional analysis
2.5.2 From descriptive to critical analysis
2.6 Discourse analysis: the state of the art
Chapter 3 Standards of Textuality
3.1 Texture, textuality, text-ness
3.2 Cohesion
3.2.1 Reusing patterns
3.2.2 Compacting patterns
3.2.3 Signalling Relations
3.3 Coherence
3.3.1 Concept
3.3.2 Relation
3.4 Intentionality
3.4.1 Speech act
3.4.2 The Cooperative Principle
3.4.3 Interactive problem-solving
3.5 Acceptability
3.6 Informativity
3.7 Situationality
3.8 Intertextuality
Chapter 4 Cohesion
4.1 Introduction
4.1.1 Text and texture
4.1.2 Cohesion and cohesive tie
4.2 Reference
4.2.1 Phoricity
4.2.2 Types of reference
4.3 Substitution
4.3.1 Substitution and reference
4.3.2 Types of substitution
4.4 Ellipsis
4.4.1 Introduction
4.4.2 Types of ellipsis
4.5 Conjunction
4.5.1 Definition of conjunction
4.5.2 Types of conjunction
4.6 Lexical cohesion
4.6.1 Textual properties of lexical items
4.6.2 Types of lexical cohesion
4.7 Cohesive harmony
4.7.1 Cohesive ties
4.7.2 Cohesive chains
4.7.3 Chain interaction
4.7.4 Cohesive harmony
4.8 Structural cohesion
4.8.1 Theme-rheme development
4.8.2 Given-new organization
4.9 Phonological cohesion
4.9.1 Intonation contour served as cohesive device to signal information left unsaid
4.9.2 Phonological cohesive in literary works
4.10 Summary of cohesive devices
Chapter 5 Coherence
5.1 Cohesion and Coherence
5.1.1 Definitions of cohesion and coherence
5.1.2 The role of cohesion with respect to coherence
5.2 Semantic perspectives
5.2.1 Local coherence
5.2.2 Global coherence
5.3 Pragmatics perspectives
5.3.1 Discourse as sequence of illocu

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