Applied Linguistics - Towards a New Integration? - Lars Evensen

Applied Linguistics - Towards a New Integration? - Lars Evensen

4. Communication and discourse: Towards an integrated view

Applied Linguistics - Towards a New Integration? - Lars Evensen

Lars Sigfred Evensen [+-]
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Lars Sigfred Evensen is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU, Trondheim) and Chair of The Norwegian Association for Applied Linguistics (ANLA). He chaired The Nordic Research Group for Theoretical and Applied Text Linguistics and Discourse Analysis (NORDTEXT) 1987-1993 and has been an honorary board member since. His main research interests are in epistemology, discourse analysis, the acquisition of writing and technologically mediated interdisciplinary communication. He edited the journal Trondheim Papers in Applied Linguistics 1986-1989. He has edited the anthologies Nordic research in text linguistics and discourse analysis (1986), Innovation in the teaching of writing (in Norwegian, with Inge Moslet, 1993), Writing theory and classroom practices (in Norwegian, with Torlaug L. Hoel, 1997) and the interdisciplinary Thinking culture dialogically (with Craig Brandist, The International Bakhtin Centre, Sheffield, Finn Bostand and Hege Faber, NTNU, Trondheim, 2004).

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This chapter is devoted to discussing ontological concepts like communication and discourse, as these concepts have been understood at different points in the historical development of applied linguistics. On the basis of this discussion, the chapter further presents an integrated approach.

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Evensen, Lars Sigfred. 4. Communication and discourse: Towards an integrated view. Applied Linguistics - Towards a New Integration?. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 71-98 May 2013. ISBN 9781781792551. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=21656. Date accessed: 29 Mar 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.21656. May 2013

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