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The Grammar of Discourse
Robert E. Longacre
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Description for The Grammar of Discourse
Hardback. Investigates the interface of the morphosyntax of a language with its textual structures. This volume covers the integration of information salience, local dominance, and paragraph type to answer the question 'What makes a discourse followable?'; a study of dialogue relations; and the formalization of the interrelations of tagmeme and syntagmeme. Series: Topics in Language and Linguistics. Num Pages: 362 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFG; JMR. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1590.
In that The Anatomy of Speech Notions (1976) was the precursor to The Grammar of Discourse (1983), this revision embodies a third "edition" of some of the material that is found here. The original intent of the 1976 volume was to construct a hierarchical arrangement of notional categories, which find surface realization in the grammatical constructions of the various languages of the world. The idea was to marshal the categories that every analyst-regardless of theoretical bent-had to take account of as cognitive entities. The volume began with a couple of chapters on what was then popularly known as "case grammar," ... Read more
In that The Anatomy of Speech Notions (1976) was the precursor to The Grammar of Discourse (1983), this revision embodies a third "edition" of some of the material that is found here. The original intent of the 1976 volume was to construct a hierarchical arrangement of notional categories, which find surface realization in the grammatical constructions of the various languages of the world. The idea was to marshal the categories that every analyst-regardless of theoretical bent-had to take account of as cognitive entities. The volume began with a couple of chapters on what was then popularly known as "case grammar," ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Springer Science+Business Media United States
Number of pages
362
Condition
New
Series
Topics in Language and Linguistics
Number of Pages
362
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780306452352
SKU
V9780306452352
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Reviews for The Grammar of Discourse
From reviews of the First Edition: `A comprehensive and cohesive description of text discourse ... provides a challenging and stimulating vehicle for expanding the horizons of readers having a concern for discourse analysis.' Applied Psycholinguistics `Because of the richness and breadth of its examples (drawn from many ... Read more