本书通过实例分析，深入浅出地、系统地介绍了语篇研究理论．为读者从事文学研究打下了基础。

为方便读者使用，本书收录了语篇研究领域中使用频繁的概念，设置了富有启发性的思考题，并配有答案。

本书作者是语篇研究领域卓有建树的学者．他以四种语言出版的Discouse Studies: An Itroductory Textbook(1993)在学界受到广泛欢迎。

In 1992 I published my first introduction, Discourse Studies: An Introductory Textbook, which was reprinted several times and published in four languages. It has been the basis for this book but the enormous number of discourse studies publications and new insights of the past decade that have been incorporated here make this a very different book with over 300 source references and about 500 basic concepts explained. This book touches on various disciplines that previously did not consider discourse, and the broader, dynamic, contexts of discourse in communication science.

Acknowledgments

1 Introduction

 1.1 A rough definition of discourse studies

 1.2 Aim and structure of this book

 1.3 The presentation of the material

 Questions and assignments

 Bibliographical information

PART I

General orientation

2 Communication as action

 2.1 The Organon model

 2.2 Speech act theory

 2.3 Illocutions in discourse

 2.4 The cooperative principle

 2.5 Relevance theory

 2.6 Politeness theory

 Questions and assignments

 Bibliographical information

3 Discourse in communication

 3.1 The pragmatic perspective

 3.2 Rules for symbolic interaction

 3.3 Messages between sender and receiver

 3.4 The discourse situation

 3.5 The socio-semiotic approach

 3.6 What makes discourse discourse?

 Questions and assignments

 Bibliographical information

PART II

Backpacking for a scientific journey

4 Discourse types

 4.1 The variety of functions and forms

 4.2 Written language and verbal interaction

 4.3 Everyday and literary language

 4.4 Electronic discourse

 4.5 Conventionalized forms for conventionalized occasions

 4.6 Multimodality

 Questions and assignments

 Bibliographical information

5 Structured content

 5.1 Propositions

 5.2 Topics

 5.3 Macrostructures

 5.4 Superstructures

 Questions and assignments

 Bibliographical information

6 Discourse connections

 6.1 Cohesion

 6.2 Referential elements

 6.3 Coherence

 6.4 Rhetorical Structure Theory

 6.5 Discourse relation research

 Questions and assignments

 Bibliographical information

7 Contextual phenomena

 7.1 Deixis

 7.2 Staging

 7.3 Perspectivization

 7.4 Given-new management

 7.5 Presuppositions

 7.6 Inferences

 Questions and assignments

 Bibliographical information

8 Style

 8.1 Form, content and situation

 8.2 Views on style

 8.3 Stylistic analysis

 8.4 Examples of stylistic research

 Questions and assignments

 Bibliographical information

PART III

Special modes of communication

9 Conversation analysis

 9.1 Transcription systems

 9.2 The turn-taking model

 9.3 Sequential organization

 9.4 Discourse markers

 Questions and assignments

 Bibliographical information

10 Informative discourse

 10.1 Readability in a formula

 10.2 The measurement of understanding

 10.3 Judging discourse quality

 10.4 The improvement of documents

 Questions and assignments

 Bibliographical information

11 Narratives

 11.1 The structure of fairy tales

 11.2 The sociolinguistic approach

 11.3 The psycholinguistic approach

 11.4 The organizational approach

 Questions and assignments

 Bibliographical information

12 Argumentation and persuasion

 12.1 The structure of argumentation

 12.2 The pragma-dialectical approach

 12.3 The social-psychological approach

 12.4 The quality of argumentation

 Questions and assignments

 Bibliographical information

PART IV

Special interests

13 Discourse and cognition

 13.1 Modeling discourse production

 13.2 Product and process analysis

 13.3 Processing and prior knowledge

 13.4 Aspects of processing

 13.5 Modeling discourse processing

 13.6 The metaphor in cognitive research

 Questions and assignments

 Bibliographical information

14 Discourse and institution

 14.1 The agent-client approach

 14.2 Politics

 14.3 Law

 14.4 Bureaucracy

 14.5 Media

 14.6 Health care

 Questions and assignments

 Bibliographical information

15 Discourse and culture

 15.1 The Sapir-Whorfhypothesis

 15.2 Critical Discourse Analysis

 15.3 Gender

 15.4 Racism

 15.5 Intercultural communication

 Questions and assignments

 Bibliographical information

Key to the questions

References

Index