Text, Context, Pretext: Critical Isssues in Discourse AnalysisISBN: 978-0-631-23452-4
Paperback
200 pages
October 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
