Discourse and Language Education Hatch EFL Paperback Cambridge University Press

Discourse and Language Education

Discourse and Language Education offers a practical, accessible discussion of discourse analysis.

Evelyn Hatch (Author)

9780521426053, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 31 January 1992

348 pages
22.9 x 15.3 x 2.6 cm, 0.475 kg

Discourse and Language Education offers a practical, accessible discussion of discourse analysis. Discourse analysis describes how such communication is structured, so that it is socially appropriate and linguistically accurate. This book gives practical experience in analyzing discourse and the study of written language. The analyses show the ways we use linguistic signals to carry out our discourse goals and the differences between written and spoken language as well as across languages. This text can be used as a manual in teacher education courses and linguistics and communications courses. It will be of great interest to second language teachers, foreign language teachers, and special education teachers (especially those involved with the hearing impaired).

Practice exercisesPrefaceIntroduction1. Communication theory: system constraints and conversational analysis2. Communication theory: ritual constraints3. Scripts and communication theory4. Speech acts and speech events5. Rhetorical analysis6. Coherence, cohesion, deixis, and discourse7. Discourse mode and syntax8. Pragmatics, prosody, and contextual analysis9. Layers of discourse analysisAppendixIndex.

Subject Areas: ELT: teaching theory & methods [EBA]