The Wedding Report
A prototypical approach to the study of traditional text types
Traditional text types (or genres) are complex linguistic, sociocultural and cognitive phenomena that can only be analysed in flexible interdisciplinary frameworks fusing structural and process-oriented approaches and combining quantitative description with qualitative interpretation and evaluation.
The theoretical and methodological implications of the prototypical text type concept which is developed in this book are explored in an exhaustive case study of a representative (ie prototypical) genre: the wedding report, a conventional type of news report published in local English newspapers. The distinctive contextual and textual features situational context, text production processes, function, thematic structure, and form on the macro- and microlevel are analysed synchronically and diachronically. The linguistic findings are integrated into a comprehensive view of the interplay between the genre as a linguistic frame and its sociocultural context.
The study puts special emphasis on addressing the methodological problems arising from the inherent fuzziness of traditional text types, and can thus serve as a detailed working model of genre analysis, designed to be adapted to the specific requirements of similar studies.
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 27] 1993. xii, 314 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Preliminaries
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Introduction | p. 3
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Wedding Reports in Local Newspapers: Introducing the Text type | p. 10
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Key Concepts and Approaches
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Text Type and Text Typology: Linguistic Approaches and Language Reality | p. 29
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Traditional Text Type: The Concept and Its Implications For Methods and Aims | p. 44
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The Wedding Report as a News Text Type | p. 61
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Text-External Characteristics
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Situational Context (I): Definition of Components | p. 81
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Situational Context (II): Text Production Processes | p. 93
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The Function of the Wedding Report | p. 101
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Corpus Analysis
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Content and Thematic Structure | p. 109
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Schematic Structure (I): The Wedding Report and Van Dijk's News Schema | p. 145
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Schematic Structure (II): The Realisation of Global Structures | p. 163
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Stylistic Microlevel Characteristics | p. 197
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Outlook and Conclusion
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Outlines of a wilder Perspective | p. 247
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Conclusion | p. 258
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Appendices | p. 267
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Subject Index | p. 309
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CF: Linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General