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Deyes, Tony – English Language Teaching Journal, 1982
Refers to an article by H. Sopher entitled "Discourse Analysis as an Aid to Literary Interpretation." Argues that such interpretations are more clearly supported by a surface structure analysis. Proposes a different approach based on the use of grammatical and syntactic features. (Author/MES)
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, Content Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Literary Criticism
Kaplan, Robert B. – 1978
It is contended that there are such things as discourse blocs, and that they are composed of discourse units glued together into a contextuated whole by bloc signals. There are three kinds of structures with which it is necessary to deal in order to discuss coherent discourse: the discourse bloc, the discourse unit, and the bloc signal.…
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, Discourse Analysis, Grammar, Language Instruction

Crowley, Sharon – Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 1986
Presents an informal history and criticism of a rhetorical style that proposed a set of rules designed to pin words and syntax down so that a writer's meaning could not be misconstrued. Describes how the style was appropriated for textbook use by an innovative group of American writers during the mid-nineteenth century. (AEW)
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, Discourse Analysis, History, Rhetoric

LeTourneau, Mark S. – Composition Chronicle: Newsletter for Writing Teachers, 1996
This paper proposes that a metaphor of linguistic levels, similar to that used in general linguistic theory, be applied to the study of levels within an essay. The linguistic conception of levels in a piece of writing is not sentence-paragraph-essay (which might be characterized as a rhetorical division) but rather (or in addition to)…
Descriptors: Coherence, Connected Discourse, Definitions, Discourse Analysis
Hofmann, Thomas R. – 1979
The descriptive contents (cognitive meanings) of the modals "can,""may,""could,""might,""must,""need,""ought,""should," compared with paraphrastic verbs and adjectives, motivate two cross-classifying dimensions: logical modality (possibility, impossibility, necessity)…
Descriptors: Chinese, Connected Discourse, Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics