Working with Discourse

Chapter 1 Interpreting social discourse

1.0       An invitation

1.1       A framework for discussion

1.2       Genre

1.3       Language, power and ideology

1.4       How this book is organised

1.5       How to use this book

Chapter 2 APPRAISAL - negotiating attitudes

2.0       Negotiating attitudes

2.1       Kinds of attitudes

2.2       Amplifying attitudes

2.3       Sources of attitudes

2.4       Prosody and genre

2.5       More detail on kinds of attitude

Chapter 3 IDEATION - representing experience

3.0       Representing experience

3.1       Sequences of meanings

3.2       Doing - focusing on activities

3.3       Being - focusing on entities

3.4       Classifying and describing within elements

3.5       Ways of participating

3.6       Building up a picture - taxonomic relations

3.7       Types of taxonomic relations

3.8       Re-construing experience - ideational metaphor

Chapter 4 conjunction - connecting events

4.0       The logic of discourse

4.1       Four kinds of logic

4.3       Connecting arguments

4.4       Continuatives

4.5       Countering our expectations

4.6       Conjunction resources in full

4.7       Displaying connections - conjunction analysis

4.8       Logical metaphor

Chapter 5 IDENTIFICATION - tracking participants

5.0       Keeping track

5.1       Who's who? - identifying people

5.2       What's what? - identifying things

5.3       Where to look?

5.4       Tracking and genre

5.5       Identification systems in full

Chapter 6 PERIODICITY - information flow

6.0       Waves of information

6.1       Little waves - Themes and News

6.2       Bigger waves - hyperThemes and hyperNews

6.3       Tidal waves - macroThemes, macroNews, and beyond

6.4       How texts grow - hierarchies and series

6.5       Hard reading

6.6       A note on headings

6.7       Texture - phasing discourse systems

Chapter 7 NEGOTIATION

7.1      Interacting in dialogue

7.2      Exchanging roles - speech function

7.3      speech function and mood

7.4      Responding to

7.5      Sequencing moves - exchange structure

7.6      Interrupting exchanges - tracking and challenging

7.7      Extended exchanges - move and exchange complexes

7.8      Negotiation & beyond

Chapter 8 TACKLING A TEXT

8.1       Getting going

8.2       Outside-in

8.3       Inside-out

8.4       Inauguration day - from past to present

8.5       The Cost of Courage - from domination to freedom

8.6       The Meaning of Freedom - from self to community

8.7       Reprise

Chapter 9 CONNECTIONS

9.1       Context (register and genre)

9.2       Data

9.3       Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA)

9.4       Multimodal Discourse Analysis (MDA)

9.5       Voices

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