话语分析

Disourseanalysisisatermwhichhascometohavedifferentinterpretationsforscholarsworkingindifferentdisciplines.Forasociolinguist.itisconcernedmainlywiththestructureofsocialinteractionmanifestedinconversation;forapsycholinguist，itisprimarilyconcernedwiththenatureofcomprehensionofshortwrittentexts;forthecomputationallinguist，itisconcernedwithproducingoperationalmodelsoftext-understandingwithinhighlylimitedcontexts.Inthistextbook，theauthorsprovideanextensiveoverviewofthemanyanddiverseapproachestothestudyofdiscourse，butbasetheirownapproachcentrallyonthedisciplinewhich，tovaryingdegrees，iscommontothemall-linguistics.Usingamethodologywhichhasmuchincommonwithdescriptivelinguistics，theyofferalucidandwide-rangingaccountofhowformsoflanguageareusedincommunication.Theirprincipalconcernistoexaminehowanylanguageproducedbyman，whetherspokenorwritten，isusedtocommunicateforapurposeinacontext.Thediscussioniscarefullyillustratedthroughoutbyawidevarietyofdiscoursetypes（conversationsrecordedindifferentsocialsituations，extractsfromnewspapers，notices，contemporaryfiction，graffiti，etc.）.Thetechniquesofanalysisaredescribedandexemplifiedinsufficientdetailforthestudenttobeabletoapplythemtoanylanguageincontextthatheorsheencounters.Afamiliaritywithelementarylinguisticsisassumed，buttherangeofissuesdiscussedinconjunctionwiththevarietyofexemplifcationpresentedwillmadethisavaluableandstimulatingtextbooknotonlyforstudentsoflinguistics，butforanyreaderwhoishestoinvestigatetheprinciplesunderlyingtheuseoflanguageinaturalcontextstocommunicateandunderstandintendedmeaning.Thisbookmakesforabsorbingreading.Itisverywell-written，inspiringandclear.Itisindispensableliteratureforanyoneworkinginthefieldofdiscourseanalysis.JournalofSemantics.