Discourse, of Course -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of Contents -- I. Discourse in communication -- II. Discourse and other communication modes -- III. Discourse types -- IV. Discourse structures -- V. Stylistics and Rhetorics -- VI. Discourse and Cognition -- VII. Discourse and Institution -- VIII. Discourse and Culture -- Key to the assignments -- About the authors -- References -- Index -- A multiple invitation to discourse studies -- 1. How this book came to being -- 2. The outline of this book -- I. Discourse in communication -- II. Discourse and other communication modes -- III. Discourse types -- IV. Discourse structures -- V. Stylistics and Rhetorics -- VI. Discourse and Cognition -- VII. Discourse and Institution -- VIII. Discourse and Culture -- 3. The structure of the chapters -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The research challenge -- 3.3 Examples -- 3.4 Research methods -- 3.5 Recent research -- 3.6 Research proposal -- 3.7 Practical relevance -- Discourse in communication -- Discourses "off course"? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The research challenge -- 3. Examples -- 4. Research method -- 5. Recent research -- 6. Research proposal -- 7. Practical relevance -- Discourse and other communication modes -- Discourse across semiotic modes -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The research challenge -- 3. Examples -- 4. Research method -- 5. Recent research -- 6. Research proposal -- 7. Practical relevance -- Schemes and tropes in Visual Communication -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Research challenge -- 3. Examples -- 4. Research method -- 5. Recent research -- 6. Research proposal -- 7. Practical relevance -- Discourse types -- Text types and dynamism of genres -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The research challenge -- 3. Examples -- 4. Research method -- 5. Recent research -- 6. Research proposal -- 7. Practical relevance.

Academic and professional written genres in disciplinary communication -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The research challenge -- 3. Examples -- 4. Research method -- Multi-feature and multi-dimensional analysis: Methodological steps -- Linguistic features -- 5. Recent research -- 6. Research proposal -- Constitution of Corpus PUCV-2006 -- Academic Corpus: main steps -- Professional Corpus: main steps -- 7. Practical relevance -- Discourse structures -- Why investigate textual information hierarchy? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Research challenge -- 3. Examples -- 4. Research method -- 5. Recent research -- 6. Research proposal -- 7. Practical relevance -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Implicit and explicit coherence relations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The research challenge -- 3. Examples -- 4. Research method -- 5. Recent research -- 6. Research proposal -- 7. Practical relevance -- Appendix: Sources of examples -- Stylistics and Rhetorics -- Style and culture in quantitative discourse analysis -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The research challenge -- 3. Examples -- 4. Research method -- 5. Recent research -- 6. Research proposal -- 7. Practical relevance -- Devices of probability and obligation in text types -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The research challenge -- 3. Examples -- 4. Research method -- 5. Recent research -- 6. Research proposal -- 7. Practical relevance -- Analysis and evaluation of argumentative discourse -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The research challenge -- 3. Examples -- 4. Research method -- 5. Recent research -- 6. Research proposal -- 7. Practical relevance -- Discourse and Cognition -- Embodied cognition, discourse, and dual coding theory -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The research challenge -- 3. Examples -- 4. Research method -- 5. Recent research -- 6. Research proposal -- 7. Practical relevance -- The cognition of discourse coherence -- 1. Introduction.

2. The research challenge -- 3. Example -- 4. Research method -- Basic operation: Additive versus causal relations -- Source of coherence: Content, epistemic and speech act relations -- How can the cognitive status of coherence relations be investigated? -- 5. Recent research -- Categorization of relations -- Cross-linguistic study of connectives -- Processing -- Children's language -- 6. Research proposal -- Categorization of relations -- Cross-linguistic study of connectives -- Processing -- Childrens' language -- 7. Practical relevance -- The benefit of connectives in natural reading situations -- Automatic summarization -- A computational psycholinguistic algorithm to measure cohesion in discourse -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Research challenge -- 3. Examples -- 4. Research method -- 5. Recent research -- 6. Research proposal -- 7. Practical relevance -- Discourse and Institution -- Chinese questions and power relations in institutional dialogue -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The research challenge -- 3. Examples -- 4. Research method -- 5. Recent research -- 6. Research proposal -- 7. Practical relevance -- Acknowledgement -- Towards a process view of preformulation in press releases -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The research challenge -- 3. Examples -- 4. Research method -- 5. Recent research -- 6. Research proposal -- 7. Practical relevance -- Media discourse -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The research challenge -- 3. Example -- 4. Research method -- 5. Recent research -- 6. Research proposal -- 7. Practical relevance -- Discourse and Culture -- Critical discourse analysis -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Research challenge -- 3. Examples -- 4. Research method -- Social Actor Theory -- Exclusion -- Role allocation -- Generic and specific reference -- Assimilation -- Association and dissociation -- Indetermination and differentiation -- Nomination and categorization.

Functionalization and identification -- Personalization and impersonalization -- Overdetermination -- 5. Recent research -- The representation of "ordinary people" in The Times and the Sun -- Nomination -- Assimilation -- Categorization -- 6. Research proposal -- 7. Practical relevance -- Gendered discursive constructions of bank manager positions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The research challenge -- 3. Examples -- 4. Research method -- 5. Recent research -- 6. Research proposal -- 7. Practical relevance -- Appendix 1. The Appraisal system -- Appendix 2. Do women make better managers? -- Appendix 3: Endnotes -- The semiotics of racism -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Research challenge -- 3. Examples -- 4. Research method -- 5. Recent research -- 6. Research proposal -- 7. Practical relevance -- Key to the assignments -- Chapter 1. Doing discourse analysis with possible worlds -- Chapter 2. Discourses "off course"? -- Chapter 3. Discourse across semiotic modes -- Chapter 4. Schemes and tropes in Visual Communication: The case of object grouping in advertisements -- Chapter 5. Text types and Dynamism of Genres -- Chapter 6. Academic and professional written genres in disciplinary communication: Theoretical and empirical challenges -- Chapter 7. Why investigate textual information hierarchy? -- Chapter 8. Implicit and explicit coherence relations -- Chapter 9. Style and culture in quantitative discourse analysis. -- Chapter 10. Devices of probability and obligation in text types -- Chapter 11. Analysis and evaluation of argumentative discourse -- Chapter 12. Embodied cognition, discourse, and dual coding theory: New directions -- Chapter 13. The cognition of discourse coherence -- Chapter 14. A computational psycholinguistic algorithm to measure cohesion in discourse -- Chapter 15. Chinese questions and power relations in institutional dialogue.

Chapter 16. Towards a process view of preformulation in press releases -- Chapter 17. Media discourse -- Chapter 18. Critical discourse analysis -- Nomination -- Lord Turner -- Immigrants -- "Native" population -- The Government -- Nominalization -- Legitimation -- Chapter 19. Gendered discursive constructions of bank manager positions: Conflicting social identities. -- Chapter 20. The semiotics of racism: A critical discourse-historical analysis -- About the authors -- References -- Index.