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Text, Context, Pretext: Critical Isssues in Discourse Analysis (0631234519) cover image
Text, Context, Pretext: Critical Isssues in Discourse Analysis
ISBN: 978-0-631-23451-7
Hardcover
200 pages
November 2004, Wiley-Blackwell
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  • Examines the relations between grammar, text, and discourse - analyzing the formal properties of text and the significance that is assigned to them in discourse interpretation
  • Written by a leading researcher in the field
  • Continues the enquiry into discourse analysis that Zellig Harris initiated 50 years ago, which raised a number of problematic issues that have remained unresolved ever since
  • Introduces the notion of pretext as an additional factor in the general interpretative process
  • Focuses attention specifically on the work of critical discourse analysis (CDA) in light of the issues discussed
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