Discourse and Literature boldly integrates the research of literature and non-literary genres in an cutting edge embracing learn of discourse. Narrative, poetry, drama, myths, songs, letters, Biblical discourse and graffiti in addition to stylistics and rhetorics are the subjects treaded through twelve famous experts chosen and brought by means of Teun A. van Dijk.
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