Text and discourse linguistics
Article outline
- 1.On terminology
- 2.Historical overview
- 3.Important fields of study
- 3.1Information structure
- 3.2Cohesion
- 3.3Coherence
- 3.4Grounding
- 3.5Discourse types and genres
- 4.Other trends
- 5.Applications
- 5.1Practical applications
- 5.2Acquisitional and diachronic studies
- 6.Final remarks
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Notes
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References
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