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Study Notes

Book Title: Las cosas del decir

Authors: Helena Calsamiglia Blancafort, Amparo Tusón Valls
Publisher: Editorial Ariel
ISBN: 84-344-8233-9
Publication date: February 1999 (1st edition), January 2001 (1st reprint)

Presentation
Index
- Part 1 (Primera Parte)
  - Chapter 1: El análisis del discurso
    - 1.1: The notion of discourse
    - 1.2: Units for analysis
    - 1.3: Disciplines involved in discourse analysis
  - Chapter 2: Oral Discourse
    - 2.1: Situation of enunciation
    - 2.2: Spontaneous conversation
    - 2.3: Other oral discursive practices
    - 2.4: Acquisition of oral competence
    - 2.5: Psychosocial aspects of oral activity
    - 2.6: Nonverbal elements of oral communication
      - 2.6.1: Proxemic elements
      - 2.6.2: Kinesic elements
    - 2.7: Paralinguistic elements
      - 2.7.1: Voice quality
      - 2.7.2: Vocalizations
    - 2.8: Linguistic-textual characteristics of oral discourse
      - 2.8.1: Phonetic level
      - 2.8.2: Morphological level
      - 2.8.3: Lexical level
      - 2.8.4: Textual and discursive organization
  - Chapter 3: Written Discourse
    - 3.1: Situation of enunciation
    - 3.2: Written discursive practices
    - 3.3: Acquisition of written competence
    - 3.4: Psychological aspects of written activity
      - 3.4.1: Writing process
      - 3.4.2: Reading process
    - 3.5: Nonverbal elements of written communication
    - 3.6: Linguistic-textual characteristics
      - 3.6.1: Graphic level
      - 3.6.2: Morphological level
      - 3.6.3: Lexical level
      - 3.6.4: Textual and discursive organization
- Part 2 (Segunda Parte)
  - Chapter 4: The discursive context
    - 4.1: Approximations to the concept of context
      - 4.1.1 Context from anthropology
      - 4.1.2 Context from linguistics
    - 4.2: Dimensions of context
    - 4.3: Deixis: types and functions
  - Chapter 5: The people in discourse
    - 5.1: Inscription of the person in the text
      - 5.1.1: The absent person
      - 5.1.2: Inscription of the «I»
      - 5.1.3: Inscription of the «you»
      - 5.1.4: Lexical reference of person
      - 5.1.5: Roles of Sender and Receiver
    - 5.2: Polyphony
      - 5.2.1: Open quotations
      - 5.2.2: Hidden quotations
  - Chapter 6: Interpersonal relationships, politeness, and modulation
    - 6.1: The communicative contract and the axes of the interpersonal relationship
    - 6.2: Social person: concept of image
    - 6.3: Politeness
    - 6.4: Expression of subjectivity through modulation
      - 6.4.1: Logical modality
      - 6.4.2: In the linguistic use
  - Chapter 7: Discursive purposes and interpretation processes
    - 7.1: The aims
      - 7.1.1: Globál and specific aims
    - 7.2: Implicit contents and their interpretation
    - 7.2.1: Presuppositions and shared knowledge
    - 7.2.2: The speaker´s intention in the speech act
    - 7.2.3: The implicatures
    - 7.2.4: The principle of relevance or appropriateness
- Part 3 (Tercera Parte)
  - Chapter 8: The discursive texture
    - 8.1: Coherence
    - 8.1.1: Pragmatic coherence
    - 8.1.2: Content coherence
    - 8.2: Cohesion and its mechanisms
      - 8.2.1: Maintaining reference: lexical procedures
      - 8.2.2: Substitution using synonyms and quasi-synonyms
      - 8.2.3: Substitution by hyponyms and hyperonyms and antonyms
      - 8.2.4: Substitution by general forms
    - 8.3: Other forms of cohesion
  - Chapter 9: Discursive genres and textual sequences
    - 9.1: The concept of genre
      - 9.1.1: Rhetoric and literary theory
      - 9.1.2: Folklore studies and communication ethnography
    - 9.2: Types of texts
    - 9.2.1: Text linguistics and textual typology
  - Chapter 10: Organizational modes of discourse
    - 10.1: Narrative
    - 10.2: Description
    - 10.3: Argumentation
    - 10.4: Explanation
    - 10.5: Dialog
  - Chapter 11: The act of discourse: records and procedures of rhetoric
    - 11.1: The record
      - 11.1.1
      - 11.1.2
      - 11.1.3
    - 11.2: Rhetorical procedures
      - 11.2.1: Figurative language
      - 11.2.2: Structures of sentences
      - 11.2.3: Thought figures
      - 11.2.4: Sense figures.
Appendix: Data collection and treatment