Geoffrey Huck

What Is Good Writing? (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book answers the title question by drawing on empirical results from linguistics and the other cognitive sciences. The author argues that good writing is fluent writing, where fluency in writing is similar to fluency in speech, in that both are naturally derived from motivated participation in a language community. In the case of writing, the community is that of writers and readers. Fluent writing can be learned through avid reading, but, like fluent speech, the evidence indicates that it can't be taught.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190272944
• Artikelnr.: 42687024

Autorenporträt

Geoffrey J. Huck is Associate Professor in the Writing Department at York University. He is co-author of Ideology and Linguistic Theory: Noam Chomsky and the Deep Structure Debates and co-editor of Syntax and Semantics 20: Discontinuous Constituency.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Prologue
Part I Conceptual Introduction
1. Historical Background
2. A Cognitive Approach to Good Writing
Part II Fluency
3. Constructional Fluency
4. Pragmatic Fluency
5. Narrative Fluency
6. Graphemic Fluency
Part III Form and Content
7. Figurative Language
8. Surprise, Repetition, and Complexity
9. Verbal Art and Craft
Conclusion
Epilogue
Bibliography
Endnotes
Index