This accessible guide to discourse employs an innovative, inductive approach, with a clear focus on genre that allows students to examine language in context. U

This book extends the scope and coverage of genre theory, giving more emphasis to what is known as pragmatic space; in other words it integrates the study of di

A translation of recent essays by the eminent literary critic, Tzvelan Todorov.

Discourse is language as it occurs, in any form or context, beyond the speech act. It may be written or spoken, monological or dialogical, but there is always a