Discourse and Language Education is part of the Cambridge Language Teaching Library series. Language educators often talk about "communicative competence" - the ability of learners to use language appropriately in different social settings. Discourse analysis describes how such communication is structured, so that it is socially appropriate and linguistically accurate. This hardback edition gives practical experience in analyzing discourse. It includes analyses of spoken language - conversations, classroom interactions, and the ways we structure social acts such as complaints, advice giving, and compliments - and the structure of "scripts," such as the jury trial script, the restaurant script, and the doctor's office script. Discourse analysis also includes the study of written language - the rhetorical structure of compositions, or more informal written material such as personal letters. The analyses show the ways we use linguistic signals (from lexicon to syntax to intonation or prosody) to carry out our discourse goals. These signals differ across written and spoken language, and these differences are analyzed. The organization of discourse also differs across languages, and Hatch highlights these differences. Example data are drawn from a variety of native speakers and language learners of all ages and all proficiency levels. 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). Its distinctive features are its text-plus-practice format, and the variety of examples from language users and language learners from many different cultures, backgrounds, and age groups.
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Language educators often talk about "communicative competence" - the ability of learners to use language appropriately in different social settings. Discourse analysis describes how such communication is structured, so that it is socially appropriate and linguistically accurate. This hardback edition gives practical experience in analyzing discourse. It includes analyses of spoken language - conversations, classroom interactions, and the ways we structure social acts such as complaints, advice giving, and compliments - and the structure of "scripts," such as the jury trial script, the restaurant script, and the doctor's office script. Discourse analysis also includes the study of written language - the rhetorical structure of compositions, or more informal written material such as personal letters. The analyses show the ways we use linguistic signals (from lexicon to syntax to intonation or prosody) to carry out our discourse goals. These signals differ across written and spoken language, and these differences are analyzed. The organization of discourse also differs across languages, and Hatch highlights these differences. Example data are drawn from a variety of native speakers and language learners of all ages and all proficiency levels. 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). Its distinctive features are its text-plus-practice format, and the variety of examples from language users and language learners from many different cultures, backgrounds, and age groups.
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In his study of human communication, Goffman (1976) claimed that there is a set of universal constraints on all communication. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
grocery shopping script, preempt signals, preclosing moves, backchannel signals, nonparticipant constraints, speech event analysis, preliminary research plan, conjunctive ties, ritual constraints, speech act equivalent, unplanned talk, unplanned versus, nonnative students, classroom script, interpretable messages, rhetorical structure analysis, fight script, bracket signals, social deixis, collaborative completions, ordered clauses, discourse deixis, deictic markers, time deixis, person deixis Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Los Angeles, Academic Press, University of California, Newbury House, Cambridge University Press, United States, American English, San Diego, Georgetown University Press, The Hague, John Wiley, Linguistics Department, University of Southern California, Basil Blackwell, California State University, Discourse Processes, Las Vegas, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Marco Polo, Oxford University Press, University of Pennsylvania Press, Abo Akademi, Information Sciences Institute, National Council of Teachers of English New!
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In his study of human communication, Goffman (1976) claimed that there is a set of universal constraints on all communication. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
grocery shopping script, preempt signals, preclosing moves, backchannel signals, nonparticipant constraints, speech event analysis, preliminary research plan, conjunctive ties, ritual constraints, speech act equivalent, unplanned talk, unplanned versus, nonnative students, classroom script, interpretable messages, rhetorical structure analysis, fight script, bracket signals, social deixis, collaborative completions, ordered clauses, discourse deixis, deictic markers, time deixis, person deixis Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Los Angeles, Academic Press, University of California, Newbury House, Cambridge University Press, United States, American English, San Diego, Georgetown University Press, The Hague, John Wiley, Linguistics Department, University of Southern California, Basil Blackwell, California State University, Discourse Processes, Las Vegas, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Marco Polo, Oxford University Press, University of Pennsylvania Press, Abo Akademi, Information Sciences Institute, National Council of Teachers of English New!
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