SOLER LIDIA ROSA
Congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
The structure of oral academic discourse
Lugar:
Catamarca
Reunión:
Otro; VI Latin American ESP Colloquium; 1998
Institución organizadora:
Universidad Nacional de Catamarca
Resumen:
This paper describes an analysis method to identify the thematic organization of a lecture. In a preliminary study, extracts of two lectures delivered by British linguists in Argentina were audiotaped and analysed following Brazil´s theory of discourse intonation (1985) and Barr´s concept of sequence chain (1990) to examine the function of intonation in signalling topic organization.
Results indicate that intonation seems to provide a cue for the identification of topic shift and that the combination of both methods may lead to an effective model of analysis of lecture content structure.
Results indicate that intonation seems to provide a cue for the identification of topic shift and that the combination of both methods may lead to an effective model of analysis of lecture content structure.
