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Text, Context, Pretext: Critical Issues in Discourse Analysis

H. G. Widdowson 

ISBN: 978-0-631-23451-7

October 2004

Wiley-Blackwell

196 pages

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Text, Context, Pretext: Critical Issues in Discourse Analysis

H. G. Widdowson

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978-0-631-23452-4
October 2004
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October 2004
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Description
Written by a leading researcher in the field, this fascinating examination of the relations between grammar, text, and discourse is designed to provoke critical discussion on key issues in discourse analysis which are not always clearly identified and examined.
  • Written by a leading researcher in the field
  • Continues the enquiry into discourse analysis that Zellig Harris initiated 50 years ago, which raised a number of problematic issues that have remained unresolved ever since
  • Introduces the notion of pretext as an additional factor in the general interpretative process
  • Focuses attention specifically on the work of critical discourse analysis (CDA) in light of the issues discussed
About the Author
H. G. Widdowson is Honorary Professor at the University of Vienna and Professor Emeritus at the University of London. He is renowned in the fields of applied linguistics and language teaching, and is the author of numerous books and articles, including Defining Issues in English Language Teaching (2002), Linguistics (1996), and Practical Stylistics: An Approach to Poetry (1992).
Features

  • Examines the relations between grammar, text, and discourse - analyzing the formal properties of text and the significance that is assigned to them in discourse interpretation
  • Written by a leading researcher in the field
  • Continues the enquiry into discourse analysis that Zellig Harris initiated 50 years ago, which raised a number of problematic issues that have remained unresolved ever since
  • Introduces the notion of pretext as an additional factor in the general interpretative process
  • Focuses attention specifically on the work of critical discourse analysis (CDA) in light of the issues discussed
Series
Language in Society
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