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....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Suter, Hans-Jürg, Suter, Hans-Jürg
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, 1993
Series:Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 27
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Table of Contents:
  • THE WEDDING REPORT A PROTOTYPICAL APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF TRADITIONAL TEXT TYPES; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Acknowledgments; Table of contents; List of Tables; Typographical Conventions; PART ONE. PRELIMINARIES; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Wedding Reports in Local Newspapers: Introducing the Text Type; PART TWO. KEY CONCEPTS AND APPROACHES; Chapter 3. Text Type and Text Typology: Linguistic Approaches and Language Reality; Chapter 4. Traditional Text Type: The Concept and Its Implications For Methods and Aims; Chapter 5. The Wedding Report as a News Text Type