Coherence and Grounding in Discourse

Outcome of a Symposium, Eugene, Oregon, June 1984

Author

Russell S. Tomlin

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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.

[Typological Studies in Language, 11] 1987. viii, 512 pp.

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https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.11

Table of Contents

Preface | pp. vii–viii

Narrative connectives in Sùpyìré

Robert Carlson | pp. 1–19

Cognitive constraints on information flow

Wallace Chafe | pp. 21–51

Transitivity in grammar and cognition

Scott DeLancey | pp. 53–68

Actions and procedural directions

Peter Dixon | pp. 69–89

Pragmatic funtions of word order in Sesotho acquisition

Katherine Demuth | pp. 91–108

Psycholinguistic evidence for foregrounding and backgrounding

Mary S. Erbaugh | pp. 109–130

The grammatical marking of theme in oral Polish narrative

Vanessa Flashner | pp. 131–156

Barbara A. Fox | pp. 157–174

Beyond foreground and background

T. Givón | pp. 175–188

The use of pitch phenomena in the structuring of stories

Lorraine E. Kumpf | pp. 189–216

On the status of SVO sentences in French discourse

Knud Lambrecht | pp. 217–261

On the role of conditionals in Godié procedural discourse

Lynell Marchese | pp. 263–280

Is basic word order universal?

Marianne Mithun | pp. 281–328

Encoding events in Kalam and English: different logics for reporting experience

Andrew Pawley | pp. 329–360

Word order in intransitive clauses in High and Low Malay of the late 19th century

Ellen Rafferty | pp. 361–381

The functional distribution of preposed and postposed ‘if’ and ‘when’ clauses in written discourse

Violeta Ramsey | pp. 383–408

“Vividness” and “narrative events” in Japanese conversational narratives

Polly E. Szatrowski | pp. 409–433

“Subordination” and narrative event structure

Sandra A. Thompson | pp. 435–454

Linguistic reflections of cognitive events

Russell S. Tomlin | pp. 455–479

Cross-clause relations and temporal sequence in narrative and beyond

Benji Wald | pp. 481–512

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