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Coherence and grounding in discourse : outcome of a symposium, Eugene, Oregon, June 1984 / edited by Russell S. Tomlin

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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1987.
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1 online resource (viii, 512 pages) : illustrations
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Tomlin, Russell S.
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English.
Contents
COHERENCE AND GROUNDING IN DISCOURSE; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; PREFACE; NARRATIVE CONNECTIVES IN SÙPYÌRÉ; COGNITIVE CONSTRAINTS ON INFORMATION FLOW; TRANSITIVITY IN GRAMMAR AND COGNITION; ACTIONS AND PROCEDURAL DIRECTIONS; DISCOURSE FUNCTIONS OF WORD ORDER IN SESOTHO ACQUISITION; A UNIFORM PAUSE AND ERROR STRATEGY FOR NATIVE AND NON-NATIVE SPEAKERS; THE GRAMMATICAL MARKING OF THEME IN ORAL POLISH NARRATIVE; ANAPHORA IN POPULAR WRITTEN ENGLISH NARRATIVES; BEYOND FOREGROUND AND BACKGROUND; THE USE OF PITCH PHENOMENA IN THE STRUCTURING OF STORIES and ON THE STATUS OF SVO SENTENCES IN FRENCH DISCOURSEON THE ROLE OF CONDITIONALS IN GODIE PROCEDURAL DISCOURSE; IS BASIC WORD ORDER UNIVERSAL?; ENCODING EVENTS IN KALAM AND ENGLISH: DIFFERENT LOGICS FOR REPORTING EXPERIENCE; WORD ORDER IN INTRANSITIVE CLAUSES IN HIGH AND LOW MALAY OF THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY; THE FUNCTIONAL DISTRIBUTION OF PREPOSED ANDPOSTPOSED ""IF"" AND ""WHEN"" CLAUSESIN WRITTEN DISCOURSE; ""FASTNESS"" AND ""NARRATIVE EVENTS"" IN JAPANESE CONVERSATIONAL NARRATIVES; ""SUBORDINATION"" AND NARRATIVE EVENT STRUCTURE; LINGUISTIC REFLECTIONS OF COGNITIVE EVENTS
Summary
This volume seeks to expand our understanding of the relation holding between discourse relations, cognitive units, and linguistic coding. The twenty contributions in this collection explore one or more of the following themes: How point of view, or the salience of information in discourse, affects the organizational coherence of text and discourse; the concept of cognitive and linguistic event and how events are reflected in text and discourse organization; the nature of linguistic coding of events and other kinds of significant information; and the cognitive bases or cognitive correlates of.
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9789027286277 (electronic bk.)
9027286272 (electronic bk.)
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9780915027866
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9789027228819
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9789027228826
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Includes bibliographical references.
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