Text Types In English

Author : Manfred Görlach
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-08-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110197167

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Text Types and the History of English by Manfred Görlach Pdf

The history of modern European languages has been largely determined by the range of functions they have acquired, particularly after 1500. This development necessitated a notable expansion of their syntax and lexis, but is most characteristically reflected in the conventionalization of text types. Starting from the German concept of Textsorte as developed from the 1960s onwards, the present account is a first comprehensive attempt at charting the field for the history and present-day situation of the English language. In text types, a designation is linked with a more or less stable form which guides the writer’s production as well as the reader's expectation, permitting one to recognize straightforward uses as well as deliberate misuses. Some two thousand of such designations are here listed with minimal definitions and dates for first occurrences. The discussion then concentrates on selected types, which are seen as especially illustrative for English: book dedications, cooking recipes, advertisements, church hymns, lexical entries, and jokes. Their functions and development over time are treated in correlation with their specific linguistic characteristics and adaptations to different period styles and social changes in the readership. The functional range of text types in traditions outside England and the consequences of the export of English categories are exemplified by the history of Scots/Scottish English and of English in India. The arguments are accompanied by a lavish supply of textual excerpts and more than fifty pages of facsimiles, which are especially relevant for insights derived from typographical features. A full bibliography and indices are provided at the end. The book will prove useful for decisions on the constitution of representative text corpora and stimulate research into a greater number of individual text types as well as contrastive analyses at least among European languages.

Author : Mark Anderson,Kathryn Anderson
Publisher : Macmillan Education AU
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 073294385X

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Text Types in English by Mark Anderson,Kathryn Anderson Pdf

Suitable for junior secondary students - Covers poetry, drama, recount, explanation and discussion - Draws examples from contemporary novels.

Author : Anderson & Anderson Staff,Mark Anderson,Kathryn Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : English language
ISBN : 0732945844

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Text Types in English 3 by Anderson & Anderson Staff,Mark Anderson,Kathryn Anderson Pdf

These three vols. focus on factual and literary text types. Vol.1 covers poetry, drama, recount, explanation and discussion. Vol.2 covers narrative, procedure, information report and exposition. Vol. 3 develops an approach to text types that is suitable for middle secondary students.

Author : Bahaa Abulhassan
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527531833

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Working with Different Text Types in English and Arabic by Bahaa Abulhassan Pdf

The book offers guidance on the most effective strategies used in translating different text types. It is an accessible course-book for students and practitioners of Arabic-English-Arabic translation. It incorporates both theory and application, and, as such, will be invaluable to students of translation. Based on text types, it features a variety of translation key concepts, including ‘register’ and ‘genre’. It is the result of fruitful cooperation among different translation scholars. It will serve to help bilingual speakers become familiar with translation techniques and develop practical translation skills to the same standard as that expected of a university graduate. Divided into six parts, the book covers many various text types; from legal to scientific and medical, and from media and political to technical texts.

Author : Peter Durkin,Virginia Ferguson,Geoff Sperring,Heather Sperring
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : English language
ISBN : 0195555481

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Text Types for Primary Schools: bk. 3 by Peter Durkin,Virginia Ferguson,Geoff Sperring,Heather Sperring Pdf

Text Types for Primary Schools is an engaging and innovative series, designed to assist students to write in a variety of text types according to their needs and purposes. The books provide relevant and challenging writing models that reflect the aims of all current state curriculum documents. Student Book Provide relevant and challenging writing models in a range of factual and literacy text types and forms. 'Your Turn' pages encourage students to use the writing model to construct their own written texts. Provide teachers with support for planning and include scope-and-sequence charts and student writing profiles. Highlight text structure and relevant language features.

Author : Andreas Fischer,Gunnel Tottie,Hans Martin Lehmann
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Computational linguistics
ISBN : 3823358804

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Text Types and Corpora by Andreas Fischer,Gunnel Tottie,Hans Martin Lehmann Pdf

Author : John Barwick
Publisher : Blake Education
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1865091138

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Targeting Text by John Barwick Pdf

Series contains structured teaching units for nine most commonly studied text types.

Author : Anna Trosborg
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1997-11-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027285584

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Text Typology and Translation by Anna Trosborg Pdf

This book breaks new ground in translation theory and practice. The central question is: In what ways are translations affected by text types? The two main areas of investigation are: A. What are the advantages of focusing on text types when trying to understand the process of translation? How do translators tackle different text types in their daily practice? B. To what extent and in what areas are text types identical across languages and cultures? What similarities and dissimilarities can be observed in text types of original and translated texts?Part I deals with methodological aspects and offers a typology of translations both as product and as process. Part II is devoted to domain-specific texts in a cross-cultural perspective, while Part III is concerned with terminology and lexicon as well as the constraints of mode and medium involving dubbing and subtitling as translation methods. Sonnets, sagas, fairy tales, novels and feature films, sermons, political speeches, international treaties, instruction leaflets, business letters, academic lectures, academic articles, medical research articles, technical brochures and legal documents are but some of the texts under investigation. In sum, this volume provides a theoretical overview of major problems and possibilities as well as investigations into a variety of text types with practical suggestions that deserve to be weighted by anyone considering the relation between text typology and translation. The volume is indispensable for the translator in his/her efforts to become a “competent text-aware professional”.

Author : Peter Durkin,Virginia Ferguson,Geoff Sperring,Heather Sperring
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : English language
ISBN : 0195555503

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Text Types for Primary Schools: bk. 5 by Peter Durkin,Virginia Ferguson,Geoff Sperring,Heather Sperring Pdf

Text Types for Primary Schools is an engaging and innovative series, designed to assist students to write in a variety of text types according to their needs and purposes. The books provide relevant and challenging writing models that reflect the aims of all current state curriculum documents. Student Book Provide relevant and challenging writing models in a range of factual and literacy text types and forms. 'Your Turn' pages encourage students to use the writing model to construct their own written texts. Provide teachers with support for planning and include scope-and-sequence charts and student writing profiles. Highlight text structure and relevant language features.

Author : Anne Townsend,Anne Quill,Phillip Oostenbroek
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0170419304

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Text Types by Anne Townsend,Anne Quill,Phillip Oostenbroek Pdf

This comprehensive guide is a unique tool for improving writing skills, and presents imaginative, informative and persuasive texts to meet the requirements of the Australian Curriculum. Text Types: a Writing Guide for Students 3rd Edition provides examples of each text and clear directions about how to write each one. The scaffolding and modelling necessary for the development of writing skills is presented to students, by reviewing over 30 different types of written texts, including electronic texts.

Author : Margaret Warner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : English language
ISBN : 1863977643

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More Easy Text Types by Margaret Warner Pdf

This is the seventh book in the series and aims to improve educational outcomes for indigenous and ESL students. It continues to develop the idea, initially introduced in Easy Text Types, that there are different types of texts. The students are encouraged to read and become familiar with the features of explanation, descriptions, expositions, discussions and poems. All of the sample text types in this book are beautifully illustrated and simply presented to inspire students to begin to plan, write and edit their own text types with enthusiasm and confidence. The activities in the book are outcome linked and some are created to help students revise the grammar and punctuation that they have learned in Easy Punctuation and Easy Grammar. The solutions for these activities are provided at the back of the book. Includes photocopiable material.

Author : Tony Bex
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2002-03-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134839971

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Variety in Written English by Tony Bex Pdf

Combining insight from a variety of linguistic perspectives including Hallidayan functional linguistics and relevance theory, Tony Bex demonstrates how written texts operate within society to convey meaning. This book:- * looks at a wide variety of written genres - advertisments, letters, poetry and literature * provides an accessible and comprehensive survey of genre theory * proposes a challenging new way of analysing genre which emphasises communicative function * unusually, considers the relevance of linguistic theories of genre to the study of literary texts. * includes numerous exercises and annotated bibliographies Variety in Written Discourse will be of interest to all students of language and communication. In addition, it will be an invaluable text for those interested in literature, as well as English for Specific Purposes.

Author : Margaret Warner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : English as a second language
ISBN : 1863977635

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Easy Text Types by Margaret Warner Pdf

This is the sixth book in the series and aims to improve educational outcomes for indigenous and ESL students. It introduces the idea that not all texts are the same. The students are encouraged to read and become familiar with the features of narratives, recounts, procedures and information reports. All of the sample text types in this book are brilliantly illustrated and simply presented to motivate students to begin to plan, write and edit their own text types with enthusiasm and confidence. The activities in the book are outcome linked and some are created to help students revise the grammar and punctuation that they have learned in Easy Punctuation and Easy Grammar. The solutions for these activities are provided at the back of the book. Includes photocopiable material.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : English language
ISBN : OCLC:1347683951

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Text Types and the History of English by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gail Forey,Geoff Thompson
Publisher : Equinox Publishing (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Discourse analysis
ISBN : 1845539125

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Text Type and Texture by Gail Forey,Geoff Thompson Pdf

Texture - the quality that makes a text 'hang together' as a text - is a key focus of investigation in discourse analysis. This volume provides a systematic overview of recent research on textual resources that are used to construct texture, and on the ways in which these resources are deployed differently in different text types. Theme is the major resource that is explored in the first part of the book. The opening papers set out the current understanding of Theme and explore aspects of the concept which remain controversial in the field. This is followed by an examination of thematic choices in a range of text types. Issues raised include the different kinds of meanings appearing in Theme which are particularly significant for each genre, the ways in which these relate to the broader socio-cultural context, and the ways in which thematic choices interact with other kinds of texturing. In the second part of the collection, the scope widens to include an examination of other resources, particularly the contribution to texture made by patterns of interpersonal choices, in Theme and more broadly across texts as a whole. The volume closes with an overview and illustration of a methodological approach by which our understanding of texturing can be further extended.