Discourse, of Course

1. A multiple invitation to discourse studies (by Renkema, Jan); 2. Part I. Discourse in communication; 3. Doing discourse with possible worlds (by Rocci, Andrea); 4. Discourses "off course"? (by Duszak, Anna); 5. Part II. Discourse and other communication modes; 6. Discourse across semiotic modes (by Bateman, John A.); 7. Schemes and tropes in Visual Communication: The case of object grouping in advertisements (by Maes, Fons); 8. Part III. Discourse types; 9. Text types and dynamism of genres (by Wang, Sungsoon); 10. Academic and professional written genres in disciplinary communication: Theoretical and empirical challenges (by Parodi, Giovanni); 11. Part IV. Discourse structures; 12. Why investigate textual information hierarchy? (by Le, Elisabeth); 13. Implicit and explicit coherence relations (by Taboada, Maite); 14. Part V. Stylistics and rhetorics; 15. Style and culture in quantitative discourse analysis (by Kaltenbacher, Martin); 16. Devices of probability and obligation in text types (by Yang, Xinzhang); 17. Analysis and evaluation of argumentative discourse (by Eemeren, Frans H. van); 18. Part VI. Discourse and cognition; 19. Embodied cognition, discourse and dual coding theory: New directions (by Sadoski, Mark); 20. The cognition of discourse coherence (by Sanders, Ted); 21. A computational psycholinguistic algorithm to measure cohesion in discourse (by Louwerse, Max M.); 22. Part VII. Discourse and institution; 23. Chinese questions and power relations in institutional dialogue (by Wang, Jinjun); 24. Towards a process view of preformulation in press releases (by Jacobs, Geert); 25. Media discourse (by Kong, Kenneth C.C.); 26. Part VIII. Discourse and culture; 27. Critical discourse analysis (by Leeuwen, Theo van); 28. Gendered discursive constructions of bank manager positions: Conflicting social identities (by Lassen, Inger); 29. The semiotics of racism: A critical discourse-historical analysis (by Wodak, Ruth); 30. Key to the assignments; 31. References; 32. Index