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October 19, 2006
bibliographic & ironical
books i checked out about this branch of methodological possibility that are not useful at all:
Dijk, T. A. van. Text and Context: Explorations in the Semantics and Pragmatics of Discourse. New York: Longman, 1977.
de Beaugrande, Robert-Alain and Wolfgang Ulrich Dressler. Introduction to Text Linguistics. Longman Linguistics Library. Ser. New York: Longman, 1981.
books i checked out that had at least a few notes & glimmerings of language i might someday have use for to offer:
Pickering, Wilbur. A Framework for Discourse Analysis. Summer Institute of Linguistics Publications in Linguistics. Ser. 64. U of Texas at Arlington: Summer Institute of Linguistics Inc., 1978.
Stillar, Glenn F. Analyzing Everyday Texts: Discourse, Rhetoric, and Social Perspectives. Rhetoric & Society. Ser. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1998.
essay from book already on bibliography that RMH suggests i use for heavy methodological guidance (& i, being one w/the smart, was able to show her when she made that suggestion that my copy of the essay was already thoroughly dog-eared):
Huckin, Thomas. "Content Analysis: What Texts Talk About." What Writing Does and How It Does It: An Introduction to Analyzing Texts and Textual Practices. Ed. Charles Bazerman and Paul A. Prior. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2003. 13-32.
not-quite-like-alanis juxtaposition of carrying that book around, dog-eared & marked as Highly Relevant while listening to 2 colleagues over lunch & coffee describing the above author as a loudmouth & bit-of-a-nut-job re: some recent activity on the RFP listseve?
priceless.
Posted by ttobryan at October 19, 2006 12:00 PM