Building coherence and cohesion : task-oriented dialogue in English and Spanish /

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Author / Creator:Taboada, María Teresa.
Imprint:Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2004.
Description:1 online resource (xiv, 261 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Spanish
Series:Pragmatics & beyond, 0922-842X ; 129
Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 129.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11196033
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ISBN:9789027295057
9027295050
9789027253729
1588115631
9027253722
1282160184
9781282160187
9786612160189
6612160187
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-244) and indexes.
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Summary:This book examines the resources that speakers employ when building conversations. These resources contribute to overall coherence and cohesion, which speakers create and maintain interactively as they build on each other's contributions. The study is cross-linguistic, drawing on parallel corpora of task-oriented dialogues between dyads of native speakers of English and Spanish. The framework of the investigation is the analysis of speech genres and their staging; the analysis shows that each stage in the dialogues exhibits different thematic, rhetorical, and cohesive relations. The main contr.
Other form:Print version: Taboada, María Teresa. Building coherence and cohesion. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2004