Discourse on the Move: Using corpus analysis to describe discourse structure
Douglas Biber, Ulla Connor and Thomas A. Upton
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 28] 2007. xii, 289 pp.
Thomas A. Upton
List of John Benjamins publications for which Thomas A. Upton plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Discourse in the Professions: Perspectives from corpus linguistics
Edited by Ulla Connor and Thomas A. Upton
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 16] 2004. vi, 333 pp.
Subjects Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
2004 Introduction Discourse in the Professions: Perspectives from corpus linguistics, Connor, Ulla and Thomas A. Upton (eds.), pp. 1–8 | Miscellaneous
2004 The genre of grant proposals: A corpus linguistic analysis Discourse in the Professions: Perspectives from corpus linguistics, Connor, Ulla and Thomas A. Upton (eds.), pp. 235–255 | Article
2002 Business English: Learner data from Belgium, Finland and the U. S. Computer Learner Corpora, Second Language Acquisition and Foreign Language Teaching, Granger, Sylviane, Joseph Hung and Stephanie Petch-Tyson (eds.), pp. 175–194 | Article
2002 Understanding Direct Mail Letters as a genre International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 7:1, pp. 65–85 | Article
What makes non-profit, philanthropic discourse so persuasive has not been well explored to date. Using a specialized corpus of direct-mail letters from philanthropic organizations in five different fields, this study seeks to combine the tools of corpus analysis with the specificity of genre… read more