THE MERITS AND DEMERITS OF HOEY'S MATCHING PATTERNS
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Within the realm of the linguistic description of text, Hoey has adopted the approach that sees text as possessing organization, that is, describable in terms of patterns of organization. Accordingly, organizational statements of text describe what is done by accounting for probabilities. In such an approach, no linguistic combination is impossible, but some are decidedly improbable. Hoey claims that the structural description of text cannot attain perfection in any area of language study, and that the formation of structural principles forces the linguist to consider the exceptions, and thus to discover new regularities through the process of matching patterns. The present study shed some light on the merit and demerits of such an approach and the possibility of applying it in the analysis of texts.
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Hoey, M. P. (1979) Signalling in Discourse. Birmingham: University of Birmingham.
--------------- (1982) “Viewing discourse as an aid to English teaching”. Aspect 5, 2, 17-35.
---------------- (1983) On the Surface of Discourse. London: George Allen and Unwin.
-------------- (1984) “The place of clause relational analysis in linguistic description”. English Language Research Journal 4, 1-32.
-------------- (1986) “Overlapping patterns of discourse organization and their implications for clause relational analysis of problem-solution texts”, in Cooper, C. R. and Greenbaum, S. (eds.) Studying Writing: Linguistic Approaches. London: Sage Publications.
------------- (1988a) “The clustering of lexical cohesion in non-narrative text”. Trondheim Papers in Applied Linguistics 4, 154-180.
------------ (1988b) “Writing to meet the reader’s needs: text patterning and reading strategies”. Trondheim Papers in Applied Linguistics 4, 51-73.
------------- (1991a.) Patterns of Lexis in Text. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
-------------- (1991b.) “Another perspective on coherence and cohesion harmony”, in Ventola, E. (ed.) Functional and Systemic Linguistics: Approaches and Uses. Mouton: The Hague.
------------- (1993) “A common signal in discourse: how the word reason is used in texts”, in Sinclair, J. M., Hoey, M. and Fox, G. (eds.) Techniques of Description: Spoken and Written Discourse. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
------------- (1994) “Signalling in discourse: a functional analysis of a common discourse pattern in written and spoken English”, in Coulthard, M. (ed.) Advances in Written Text Analysis. London: Routledge.
------------- (1996) “Cohesive words: a paper of consequences” in KVHAA Konferencer 36: 71-90. Stockholm.
Hoey, M. P. and E. O. Winter (1986) “Clause relations and the writer’s communicative task”, in Barbara, C. (ed.) Functional Approaches to Writing. London: S.R.P.Ltd.
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