
Coherence and Grounding in Discourse
Outcome of a Symposium, Eugene, Oregon, June 1984
Russell S. Tomlin(Author)
Benjamins (John) North America Inc.,US (Publisher)
Published on 1. January 1987
Book
Hardback
512 pages
978-0-915027-85-9 (ISBN)
Description
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 the linguistic organization of discourse.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam/Philadelphia
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
1090 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-915027-85-9 (9780915027859)
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Content
1. Preface; 2. Narrative connectives in Supyire (by Carlson, Robert); 3. Cognitive constraints on information flow (by Chafe, Wallace); 4. Transitivity in grammar and cognition (by DeLancey, Scott); 5. Actions and procedural directions (by Dixon, Peter); 6. Pragmatic funtions of word order in Sesotho acquisition (by Demuth, Katherine); 7. Psycholinguistic evidence for foregrounding and backgrounding (by Erbaugh, Mary); 8. The grammatical marking of theme in oral Polish narrative (by Flashner, Vanessa); 9. Anaphora in popular written English narratives (by Fox, Barbara A.); 10. Beyond foreground and background (by Givon, T.); 11. The use of pitch phenomena in the structuring of stories (by Kumpf, Lorraine E.); 12. On the status of SVO sentences in French discourse (by Lambrecht, Knud); 13. On the role of conditionals in Godie procedural discourse (by Marchese, Lynell); 14. Is basic word order universal? (by Mithun, Marianne); 15. Encoding events in Kalam and English: different logics for reporting experience (by Pawley, Andrew); 16. Word order in intransitive clauses in High and Low Malay of the late 19th century (by Rafferty, Ellen); 17. The functional distribution of preposed and postposed 'if' and 'when' clauses in written discourse (by Ramsey, Violeta); 18. "Vividness" and "narrative events" in Japanese conversational narratives (by Szatrowski, Polly E.); 19. "Subordination" and narrative event structure (by Thompson, Sandra A.); 20. Linguistic reflections of cognitive events (by Tomlin, Russell S.); 21. Cross-clause relations and temporal sequence in narrative and beyond (by Wald, Benji)