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Wikberg, Kay – 1992
Although the main characteristics of procedural discourse are well known, less is known about its various subtypes. Most of the data for the present paper are taken from Category E (skills, trades, and hobbies) in the Brown and LOB corpora, supplemented with examples from computer manuals and a manual for drivers. Following a survey of previous…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Text Structure, Written Language

Flottum, Kjersti – 1992
This paper presents some aspects of polyphonic theory, which contests the idea of the unique speaking subject and claims that several voices can be manifest in one utterance. The theory is related to the analysis of a coherent text consisting of several utterances. The notions of enunciator, speaker, enunciation, and utterance are defined in…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Linguistic Theory, Structural Analysis (Linguistics)
Patil, P. B. – 1988
One of the central problems in the study of fictional prose is that of distinguishing between mere linguistic regularity, which in itself is of no interest to literary studies, and regularity which is significant for the text in which it is found. General criteria for determining whether any particular instance of linguistic prominence is likely…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Literary Criticism, Literary Styles, Literature

Frandsen, Finn – 1992
This paper examines the paratextual structure of news texts, i.e., the headline system (superheadline, main headline, and subheadline) and the lead. In the first part of the paper T. A. van Dijk's interdisciplinary theory (1988) of "news in the press" is reviewed with special reference to the status and function assigned to the paratext.…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Headlines, Linguistic Theory
Enos, Theresa – 1993
"Verbal atom cracking," according to Kenneth Burke, entails a process where the reader reconstructs what the writer has constructed--a necessary process before the reader can begin deconstructing. Foregrounding opposites, rather than looking for apposites, may not be the best way to approach discourse that covers especially esoteric…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Discourse Analysis, Higher Education, Reader Text Relationship
Liddy, Elizabeth D. – 1987
An investigation was undertaken into the possibility of automatically detecting how concepts exist in relation to each other in abstracts, a text-type commonly used in free-text retrieval. The end goal of this research is to capture these relationships in structured representations of abstracts' contents so that users can require not only that the…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Componential Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Information Retrieval
McKenna, Marian J. – 1988
To discover what variables are involved in the production of text coherence, and how cohesion and coherence are different, a study collected 30 papers randomly selected from over 200 papers written by incoming freshmen college students at a local community college. The papers were rated by 21 state conference participants. Raters were in-service…
Descriptors: Coherence, Discourse Analysis, Higher Education, Holistic Evaluation
Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise – 1992
This article presents methods and results from diachronic studies of articles carried out within the project "LSP Texts in the 20th Century," a study of genre-bound linguistic change and variation in science and popular science in the fields of economics, medicine, and technology. The interrelationship between text and context is central for the…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Diachronic Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries

Rowan, Katherine E. – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 1989
Argues that an understanding of professional and popular science writers' goals provides a basis for both explaining and evaluating their language use. Suggests that charges normally made against both types of writing deflect attention from the obstacles writers face and the ways in which they use language to overcome these obstacles. (KEH)
Descriptors: Communication Research, Discourse Analysis, Expository Writing, Language Usage
Braddlee – 1989
Max Headroom, the computer-generated media personality, presents a good opportunity for an investigation of the degree of intertextuality in television. Max combines narrative genres (science fiction and film noir), television program types (prime-time episodic narrative, made-for-TV movie, talkshows), advertising and programming, and electronic…
Descriptors: Advertising, Discourse Analysis, Higher Education, Mass Media