Longacre 1977

Longacre, Robert E. 1977. "Discourse analysis and literacy." In Gorman 1977.

Discusses aspects of discourse analysis as related to literacy. Gives distinctions in discourse genre, how people talk, and looking at the reader--what interests them, their needs, and what they can handle in reading. Controls characters in discourse by

• participant identification
• progression or digression
• references to time and place
• information load, and
• function of dialogue.

Must use discourse constituents as required by the macrostructure. Requires this kind of knowledge to prepare literacy textbooks.

• Bibliography module: Longacre 1977
• In overview module: Bibliography (Literacy): L
• In modular book: Bibliography (Literacy), by Doris Gallemore, Trudi C. Hunt, Jeanne Swanson, and Stephen L. Walter
• In document collection: Reference materials
• In bookshelf: Literacy

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