Browsing by Subject "Letters"

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    An Approach to Corpus-based Discourse Analysis: The Move Analysis as Example
    (Copyright © 2009 SAGE Publications [BREAK]The original doi for the as-published version of the article is 10.1177/1461445609341006. To access the doi, open the following DOI site in your browser and cut and paste the doi name where indicated: [LINK]http://dx.doi.org[/LINK]. [BREAK] Access to the original article may require subscription and authorized logon ID/password. IUPUI faculty/staff/students please check University Library resources before purchasing an article. Questions on finding the original article via our databases? Ask a librarian: [LINK] http://www.ulib.iupui.edu/research/askalibrarian [/LINK]., 2009-10) Upton, Thomas A. (Thomas Albin); Cohen, Mary Ann
    This article presents a seven-step corpus-based approach to discourse analysis that starts with a detailed analysis of each individual text in a corpus that can then be generalized across all texts of a corpus, providing a description of typical patterns of discourse organization that hold for the entire corpus. This approach is applied specifically to a methodology that is used to analyze texts in terms of the functional/communicative structures that typically make up texts in a genre: move analysis. The resulting corpus-based approach for conducting a move analysis significantly enhances the value of this often used (and misused) methodology, while at the same time providing badly needed guidelines for a methodology that lacks them. A corpus of ‘birthmother letters’ is used to illustrate the approach.
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    Dear Birthmother: A Linguistic Analysis of Letters Written to Expectant Mothers Considering Adoption
    (2007-07-20T19:08:40Z) Cohen, Mary Ann D.; Harrington, Susanmarie; Upton, Thomas A. (Thomas Albin); Shepherd, Susan
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    'Soldiers are continually advised by letter to desert:' Finding Democratic Voices in the 1863 Campaign to Discourage Civil War Soldiers
    (University of Nebraska Press, 2024-09-21) Towne, Stephen E., 1961-
    In 1863, during the American Civil War, family members and acquaintances of federal soldiers from Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois sent letters to those troops in an effort to persuade them to reject the war effort, desert, and return home. The letter writers frequently used racist arguments to encourage desertion. Receipt of these letters angered many soldiers, who sent them to hometown newspapers with requests that editors publish them in order to shame the writers. This article examines these letters, which represent a new body of evidence for studying the discourse of Democrats resident in Midwestern states.
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    Using Letters
    (2012-11-27) Durrant, Summer
    Students read letters written during the Great Depression and write an essay about the themes and issues expressed in the letters. Or, students can select an FSA photograph and write a letter to President Roosevelt about what they need.