Ling. 5350
Text Analysis
Fall 2004

Course Readings

0. Introduction

1. CUMMINGS, SUSANNA and TSUYOSHI ONO. 1997. "Discourse and Grammar."

Discourse Studies: A Multidisciplinary Introduction. Vol. 1 Discourse as Structure and

Process, ed. by T.A. van Dijk, 112-137. London: Sage.

I. Text Types and Genres

2. CHANDLER, DANIEL. 2000. An Introduction to Genre Theory. The University

of Wales, Aberystwyth. See these two sections: "The Problem of Definition":
http://www.aber .ac.uk/media/Documents/intgenre/intgenre1.html and
"Do It Yourself Generic analysis":
http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/intgenre/intgenre5.html

3. GORLACH, MANFRED. 2001. A History of Text Types: A Componential Analysis.

Towards a History of English as History of Genres, eds. Hans-Jürgen Diller
and Manfred Görlach, 47-81. Heidelberg: Universitäsverlag C. Winter.

4. LONGACRE, ROBERT E. 1996. "Monologue Discourse: Typology and Salience."

The Grammar of Discourse, 8-20. New York: Plenum.

5. EGGINS, SUZANNE and MARTIN, J. R. 1997. "Genres and Registers of Discourse."

Discourse Studies : A Multidisciplinary Introduction. Vol. 1 Discourse as Structure and

Process, ed. by T.A. van Dijk, 230-56. London: Sage.

6. SWALES, JOHN M. 1990. Genre Analysis: English in Academic and Research

Settings. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Ch. 3: The Concept of Genre, Pp. 33-67.

7. SWALES, JOHN M., and FEAK, CHRISTINE B. 1994. Academic Writing for

Graduate Students: University of Michigan Press. Pp. 10-13.

8. JOHNSTONE, BARBARA. 2001. "Discourse Analysis and Narrative." The Handbook

of Discourse Analysis, Schiffrin, D., D. Tannen, and H. E. Hamilton, eds. 635-649.

Cambridge, MA: Blackwell.

II. NP Functions

9. LUNDQUIST, LITA. 1995. Indefinite Noun Phrases in Legal Texts: Use, Function and

Construction of Mental Spaces. Journal of Pragmatics 23:7-29.

10. STVAN, LAUREL SMITH. 1993. Activity Implicatures and Possessor Implicatures:

What Are Locations When There Is No Article? In 29th Regional Meeting of the Chicago

Linguistic Society, eds. Katherine Beals et al. University of Chicago: Chicago Linguistics

Society. Pp. 419-433.

11. PRINCE, ELLEN F. 1981. "Toward a Taxonomy of Given-New Information." Radical Pragmatics,

ed. by P. Cole, 223-54. New York: Academic Press.

12. PRINCE, ELLEN F. 1992. "The ZPG Letter: Subject, Definiteness, and Information-

Status." Discourse Description: Diverse Linguistic Analyses of a Fund-Raising

Text, eds. William C. Mann and Sandra A. Thompson. Philadelphia: John

Benjamins. Pp. 295-325.

13. GIVÓN, TALMY. 1983. "Topic Continuity in Discourse: An Introduction." Topic Continuity

in Discourse: A Quantitative Cross-language Study, ed. by T. Givón, 5-41. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

III. Discourse Markers, Cohesion and Coherence

14. SCHIFFRIN, DEBORAH. 2001. "Discourse Markers: Language, Meaning, and

Context." The Handbook of Discourse Analysis, eds. Deborah Schiffrin, Deborah

Tannen and Heidi E. Hamilton. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell. Pp. 54-75.

15. LONGACRE, ROBERT E. 1976. "'Mystery' Particles and Affixes." Papers from the

12th Regional Meeting, eds. Salikoko Mufwene, et al. Chicago: Chicago

Linguistic Society. Pp. 468-475.

16. SCHIFFRIN, DEBORAH. 1987. Discourse Markers: Cambridge University Press.

Chapters 4 and 5. Pp. 73-127.

17. FISCHER, KERSTIN, and DRESCHER, MARTINA. 1996. Methods for the

Description of Discourse Particles: Contrastive Analysis. Language Sciences

18:853-861.

(See also Megan Duque-Estrada's comprehensive, cross-linguistic bibliography at:

http://www.ufpa.br/megan/megan1.htm

18. STVAN, LAUREL SMITH. 2002. Why and Say: Two Discourse Markers in

Depicted Conversation. Paper presented at High Desert Linguistics Society V, Albuquerque, NM.

19. WILLIAMS, JOSEPH M. 2000. "Cohesion and Coherence." Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and

Grace., 97-117. New York, Longman.

20. HALLIDAY, M. A. K. and HASAN, RUQAIYA. 1976. "Introduction." Cohesion in English, 1-30.

London: Longman.

21. BROWN, GILLIAN and YULE, GEORGE. 1983. "Coherence in the Interpretation of Discourse."

Discourse Analysis, 223-56. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

22. MANN, WILLIAM C. and THOMPSON, SANDRA A. 1988. "Rhetorical Structure Theory: Toward

a Functional Theory of Text Organization." Text, 8.243-81.

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