Text, Context, Pretext: Critical Issues in Discourse Analysis

ISBN: 978-0-631-23451-7

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196 pages

October 2004, Wiley-Blackwell

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Examines the relations between grammar, text, and discourse - analyzing the formal properties of text and the significance that is assigned to them in discourse interpretation
Written by a leading researcher in the field
Continues the enquiry into discourse analysis that Zellig Harris initiated 50 years ago, which raised a number of problematic issues that have remained unresolved ever since
Introduces the notion of pretext as an additional factor in the general interpretative process
Focuses attention specifically on the work of critical discourse analysis (CDA) in light of the issues discussed