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Wårvik, Brita, Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen and Risto Hiltunen, eds. 1995. Organization in Discourse. Proceedings from the Turku Conference. (Anglicana Turkuensia 15). University of Turku. 558 pp.
Publication type
Book – edited volume
Publication language
English
Keywords
discourse organization
ISBN
951-29-0572-8

Annotation

This volume contains papers presented at the Conference on Organization in Discourse (Turku, Finland, August 1994). They address issues of discourse organization in narratives, scientific and academic discourse and conversation in a variety of historical and present-day settings.

Articles in this volume

Biber, Douglas. Cross-linguistic Evidence Concerning the Linguistic Correlates of Literacy. 1–13
Connor, Ulla. Methods of Research in Contrastive Rhetoric: Some Issues. 15–28
Daneš, František. The Paragraph - a Central Unit of the Thematic and Compositional Build-Up of Texts. 29–40
Enkvist, Nils Erik. Discourse Organization, Crosscultural Rhetoric, and Translation. 41–57
Firbas, Jan. On the Thematic and the Rhematic Layers of a Text. 59–72
Hoey, Michael. The Lexical Nature of Intertextuality: A Preliminary Study. 73–94
Östman, Jan-Ola. Pragmatic Particles Twenty Years After. 95–108
Ventola, Eija. What's in an (Academic) Text? 109–128
Abadi, Adina. Coherence/Incoherence in Stories by S.Y. Agnon. 131–137
Andersson, Bo and Britt-Louise Gunnarsson. A Contrastive Study of Text Patterns in Conference Abstracts. 139–148
Barat, Erzsebet. Voice Presentation Strategies: An Intertextual Approach. 149–156
Sardinha, A. P. Berber. A Preliminary Study of Patterns of Lexis and Business Texts. 157–166
Björklund, Martina. Subjective and Organization in Narrative Discourse. 167–173
Busch-Lauer, Ines. Textual Organization in English and German Medical Abstracts. 175–186
Carstens, W. A. M. Trends in the Study of Text/Discourse in South Africa. 187–200
Chesterman, Andrew. Norm-breaking in Academic Discourse. 201–212
Cmejrková, Svetla. A Narrative Strategy: Experimential Iconicism in Czech Dream Book by Ludvík Vaculík. 213–222
Dorgeloh, Heidrun. Viewpoint and the Organization of Informative Discourse: On the Discourse Function of Full Inversion in English. 223–230
Bartell, Deborah Du. Discourse Features of Computer-Mediated Communication: 'Spoken-like' and 'Written-like'. 231–239
El-Shiyab, Said. Some Aspects of Text-Structure in Arabic Narrative Discourse. 241–248
Fernández Leal, Carmen. A Pause as a Cause of Change. 249–256
Fernández Polo, Javier. Some Discoursal Aspects in the Translation of Popular Science Texts from English into Spanish. 257–264
Frentiu, Luminita. Conversational Analysis and the Dramatic Interlocutor: Peter Schaffer's Amadeus. 265–272
Halmari, Helena. The Organization of Episode Structuring in Finnish/Finnish and Finnish/Anglo-American Business Telephone Conversations: An Intercultural Perspective. 273–281
Heller, Ergá. Is It Possible to Speak (and Write) Modern Hebrew Literary Texts? A Linguistic Aspect of Translating English Substandard Speech Acts into Modern Hebrew. 283–287
Hiirikoski, Juhani. Correlations between Some Morphosyntactic Features and Word Order in Finnish and English: Some Preliminary Results of Testing Transivity Hypothesis. 289–299
Jacobs, Geert. Organization in Institutional Discourse: Putting Press Releases on a Proper Footing. 301–307
Kukkonen, Pirkko. Different Ways of Conveying Information: A Comparison of Spoken and Written Stories Produced by Non-aphasic and Aphasic Subjects. 309–317
Lane, Chris. The Bureaucratic Organization of Oral Performance: Elicited Narratives in Courtroom Testimony. 319–327
Langleben, Maria and Daniel Langleben. Iterational Structures in Anomalous texts. 329–340
Lenk, Uta. Discourse Markers and Conversational Coherence. 341–352
Likomanova, Iskra. Life History's Discourse. 353–360
Lindeberg, Ann-Charlotte. Tenses, Modals, and Rhetorical Structuring in Research Articles in Finance, Management and Marketing: An Exploratory Study of Introductions. 361–369
Mills, Margaret H. Collective Learning: The Philosophy and Framework of Russian Classroom Discourse. 371–380
Multisilta, Teija. Pragmatic Particles nu and vot in Spoken Russian. 381–392
Németh T., Eniko. On the Role of Pragmatic Connectives in Hungarian Spoken Discourses. 393–402
Nyman, Sirkku. Sequentiality and Iconism in Operating Instructions. 403–408
Nyyssönen, Heikki. Aspects of Text Accessibility: Work in Progress. 409–418
Pérez Guerra, Javier. A Syntactic Analysis of Sentence-organization in Discourse, with Special Reference to Early-modern and Contemporary English. 419–429
Pettersson, Bo. Method in Narrative Madness: Bartheleme's See the Moon? 431–438
Pickering, Michael. The Textual Function of Typeface in a Narrative Poem. 439–447
Pool, Els van der. Developmental Changes in Organizing Information: A Text-analytical Approach. 449–457
Prideaux, Gary D. and John T. Hogan. The Role of Markedness in Coding Episode Boundaries: Evidence from Oral and Written Discourse. 459–466
Raisanen, Christine. Some Aspects of the Engeneering Conference Proceedings Paper and the Discourse of the Air-bag. 467–476
Reppen, Randi. A Multi-dimensional Comparison of Spoken and Written Registers Produced By and For Students. 477–486
Ruuskanen, Deborah D. K. The Translator as Ideal Reader. 487–496
Serzisko, Fritz. The Paragraph in Spoken Narrative Discourse. 497–508
Svindland, Arne S. Originals and Translations: The Case of Coordination. 509–518
Taavitsainen, Irma and Päivi Pahta. Scientific 'Thought-styles' in Discourse Structure: Changing Patterns in a Historical Perspective. 519–529
Tanskanen, Sanna-Kaisa. Lexical Cohesion Meets Communicative Conditions. 531–538
Virtanen, Tuija. Analysing Argumentative Strategies: A Reply to a Complaint. 539–548
Wårvik, Brita. Peak-marking in Old English Narrative. 549–558