Title: Man and message : a guide to meaning-based text analysis /
Authors: Callow, Kathleen.; Summer Institute of Linguistics.
Publisher: Summer Institute of Linguistics and University Press of America,
Year: 1998
Subjects: Semantics; Communication Psychological aspects; Discourse analysis.
Contents: 1. Meanings and How we Express Them -- 2. Which Come First, Words or Meanings? -- 3. The Man Behind the Message -- 4. Person to Person -- 5. Things, Thoughts, and Words: Mostly Thoughts -- 6. Things, Thoughts, and Words: Mostly Words -- 7. Communicating Messages Purposively -- 8. Communicating Messages with Several Purposes -- 9. Presenting Messages Appropriately -- 10. The Shaping of Longer Messages -- 11. The Message as a Unit -- 12. Schematic and Nonschematic Message Patterns -- 13. Configurations: Determining the Boundaries -- 14. Configurations: The Topic -- 15. Configurations: The Theme -- 16. Referential Relations -- 17. Presentational Relations -- 18. The Proposition -- 19. Propositionalising a Text -- 20. The Meaning Structure of a Text.