Book review
. From discourse process to grammatical construction: On left-dislocation in English Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1992. xi + 181 pp. and. Grammar in interaction: Adverbial clauses in American English conversations Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. xvii + 165 pp.
Reviewed by
Betty J. Birner | University of Pennsylvania
Published online: 01 January 1996
https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.20.2.10bir
https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.20.2.10bir
References
Givón, Talmy
(ed.) 1983 Topic continuity in discourse: a quantitative cross-language study. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Ochs, Elinor & Schieffelin, Bambi B.
1976 “Foregrounding referents: a reconsideration of left dislocation in discourse”. BLS 21:240–257. [reprinted in Ochs & Schieffelin 1983:158–174]
1983 Acquiring conversational competence. London: Routledge.
Prince, Ellen F.
1985 “Fancy syntax and ‘shared knowledge’”. Journal of Pragmatics 91:65–81.