Text, Context, Pretext: Critical Issues in Discourse AnalysisISBN: 978-0-631-23452-4
Paperback
200 pages
October 2004, Wiley-Blackwell
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Written by a leading researcher in the field, this fascinating
examination of the relations between grammar, text, and discourse
is designed to provoke critical discussion on key issues in
discourse analysis which are not always clearly identified and
examined.
- 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