Reference:
Review Excerpts 'In Antiquity, three main aims of language structured the training in the art of
discourse: the literary, the persuasive (rhetorical), and the pursuit of truth
(dialectical)' (8).
Domains: Under construction |
Key Terms: | discourse | language |
literary |
truth |
'Only recently, however, with the work of Christensen, Harris, and Pike have
structural and generative grammars moved into areas relevant to discourse
education' (16).
Domains: Under construction |
Key Terms: | discourse | education |
'A discipline must be fertilized from without; otherwise it can become stale
and sterile' (16-7).
Domains: Under construction |
Key Terms: | discipline |
'The justification for the autonomy of textual study is the same as the
justification for any scientific abstraction: by focusing on one aspect of a reality,
science can set up tools for isolated analysis which is possible only within this
particular vacuum. Then the object of investigation can be reinserted into the
stream of life, more intelligible for its academic isolation.' (24).
Domains: Under construction |
Key Terms: | analysis | aspect |
investigation |
reality |
science |
study |
'the subdivisions of discourse are the major concern. In other words, what
are the basic signals of discourse, the basic kinds of references made by
discourse, and the basic uses of discourse?' (30).
Domains: Under construction |
Key Terms: | discourse |
'The reintegration of thought to expression is one of the major attempts of
this book' (32).
Domains: Under construction |
Key Terms: | expression | thought |
'There are different kinds of thinking relevant to different uses of language'
().
Domains: Under construction |
Key Terms: | language | thinking |
Kinneavy postulates 'categories like: a narrative, a series of classifications,
a criticism or evaluation, and a description. Actually, these four classes of kinds
of referents are the modes of discourse considered here' (36).
Domains: Under construction |
Key Terms: | criticism | description |
discourse |
narrative |
'Each of the modes has its own peculiar logic. It also has its own
organizational patterns and, to some extent, its own stylistic characteristics'
(37).
Domains: Under construction |
Key Terms: | logic | Kinneavy maintains that the 'aims overlap just as the modes of discourse.
But abstracting them for individual consideration is the necessary limitation of
any aspect of science' (40).
Domains: Under construction |
Key Terms: | aspect | discourse |
science |
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