Grounding in English and Arabic News Discourse
Esam N. Khalil
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 82] 2000. x, 274 pp.
Esam N. Khalil
List of John Benjamins publications for which Esam N. Khalil plays a role.
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Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Discourse studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics
Articles
2005 Grounding between figure-ground and foregrounding-backgrounding Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Volume 3, Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco José (ed.), pp. 1–21 | Article
The association that has been made between the discourse notion of grounding (viz. the foreground-background semantic structure) and the Gestalt notions of figure and ground has led to equating foreground with prominence — a surface structure property of discourse. Sorting out the terminological… read more
2003 The semantics–pragmatics interface: The case of grounding Meaning Through Language Contrast: Volume 2, Jaszczolt, Katarzyna M. and Ken Turner (eds.), pp. 423–440 | Article