Ebook: Patterns of text : in honour of Michael Hoey
Author: Michael Hoey, Mike Scott, Geoff Thompson
- Year: 2001
- Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Co
- City: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia
- Language: English
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It is increasingly clear that, in order to understand language as a phenomenon, we must understand the phenomenon of text. Our primary experience of language comes in the form of texts, which embody the complete communicative events through which our language-using lives are lived. These events are shaped by communicative needs, and this shaping is reflected in certain characteristic patterns in the texts. However,Read more...