This book is intended for anyone studying the way the English Language is used in "real" texts. Hillier presents a series of principled and fully-explicated research studies, selecting linguistic frameworks as appropriate from discourse, grammar, phonetics and phonology, and demonstrating their application to texts ranging from literary narrative to informal talk. It shows what might be done, w…
Discourse occupies thetop hierarchy in the linguistic level because it is the highest and largest grammatical unit. Discourse can also be words, sentences, paragraphs, or essays that are very intact and larger, such as articles or books. Words that are often used in discourse are potential as sentences, not words that come out of context. Discourse relies heavily on the …