Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
1.1　A rough definition of discourse studies
1.2　Aim and structure of this book
1.3　The presentation of the material
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PART Ⅰ
General orientation
2 Communication as action
2.1　The Organon model
2.2　Speech act theory
2.3　Illocutions in discourse
2.4　The cooperative principle
2.5　Relevance theory
2.6　Politeness theory
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3 Discourse in communication
3.1　The pragmatic perspective
3.2　Rules for symbolic interaction
3.3　Messages between sender and receiver
3.4　The discourse situation
3.5　The socio-semiotic approach
3.6　What makes discourse discourse?
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PART Ⅱ
Backpacking for a scientific journey
4 Discourse types
4.1　The variety of functions and forms
4.2　Written language and verbal interaction
4，3　Everyday and literary language
4.4　Electronic discourse
4.5　Conventionalized forms for conventionalized occadions
4，6　Multimodality
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5　Structured content
5.1　Propositions
5.2　Topics
5.3　Macrostructures
5.4　Superstructures
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6　Discourse connections
6.1　Cohesion
6.2　Referential elements
6.3　Coherence
6.4　Rhetorical Structure Theory
6.5　Discourse relation research
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7 Contextual phenomena
7.1　Deixis
7.2　Staging
7.3　Perspectivization
7.4　Given-new management
7.5　Presuppositions
7.6　Inferences
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8 Style
8.1　Form， content and situation
8.2　Views on style
8.3　Stylistic analysis
8.4　Examples of stylistic research
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PART Ⅲ
Special modes of communication
9 Conversation analysis
9.1　Transcription systems
9.2　The turn-taking model
9.3　Sequential organization
9.4　Discourse markers
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10 Informative discourse
10.1 Readability in a formula
lO.2 The measurement of understanding
10.3 Judging discourse quality
lO.4 The improvement of documents
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11　Narratives
11.1 The structure of fairy tales
11.2 The sociolinguistic approach
11.3 The psycholinguistic approach
11.4 The organizational approach
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12 Argumentation and persuasion
12.1 The structure of argumentation
12.2 The pragma-dialectical approach
12.3 The social-psychological approach
12.4 The quality of argumentation
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PART IV
Special interests
13 Discourse and cognition
13.1 Modeling discourse production
13.2 Product and process analysis
13.3 Processing and prior knowledge
13.4 Aspects of processing
13.5 Modeling discourse processing
13.6 The metaphor in cognitive research
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14 Discourse and institution
14.1 The agent-client approach
14.2 Politics
14.3 Law
i4.4 Bureaucracy
14.5 Media
14.6 Health care
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15 Discourse and culture
15.1 The Sapir-Whorfhypothesis
15.2 Critical Discourse Analysis
15.3 Gender
15.4 Racism
15.5 Intercultural communication
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Key to the questions
References
Index
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