Description:
Textual Interaction provides a clear and cogent account of written discourse analysis. Hoey clearly sets out his own approach and compares it with other approaches. Each chapter introduces key concepts and analytical techniques, describes important parallel work and major issues, and suggests how to apply the ideas to the teaching and learning of reading and writing. In this ...
Description:
Textual Interaction provides a clear and cogent account of written discourse analysis. Hoey clearly sets out his own approach and compares it with other approaches. Each chapter introduces key concepts and analytical techniques, describes important parallel work and major issues, and suggests how to apply the ideas to the teaching and learning of reading and writing. In this activity-based book, Hoey analyses a wide variety of narrative texts: fairytales, novels, poems, short stories, jokes; and non narrative texts: posters, timetables, till receipts. He shows how much these very different text types have in common with each other and argues that, in the interaction between writer and reader, the reader has as much power as the writer. Written in a lively and accessible style, Textual Interaction is suitable for adoption on text linguistics, applied linguistics, critical discourse analysis, and stylistics courses.
Table of Contents:
Table on Contents. Dedication. Acknowledgements. Chapter 1. What to expect and what not to expect. Chapter 2. Text as a site for interaction. Chapter 3. Interaction in text: the larger perspective. Chapter 4. The hierachical organisation of texts. Chapter 5. The organisation of some 'Cinderella' texts. Chapter 6. A matrix persepective on text. Chapter 7. Culturally popular patterns of text organisation. Chapter 8. Other sulturally popular patterns. Chapter 9. When the pattern turns into a dialogue. Bibliography.