Discourse Analysis: The Sociolinguistic Analysis of Natural Language (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780226778334)

Linguistics has traditionally concentrated on studying single sentences or isolated speech acts. In this book Michael Stubbs explores one of the most promising new directions in contemporary linguistics-the study of many sentences and how they fit together to form discourse. Using many examples drawn from recorded conversations, fieldwork observations, experimental data, and written texts, he discusses such questions as how far discourse structure is comparable to sentence structure; whether it is possible to talk of "well formed" discourse as one does of "grammatical" sentences; and whether the relation between question and answer in conversation is syntactic, semantic, or pragmatic.

Author: Michael Stubbs
ISBN-10: 0226778339
ISBN-13: 9780226778334
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 09/15/1983
Pages: 279
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.87lbs
Size: 9.01h x 6.09w x 0.64d