Coherence and Grounding in Discourse
Outcome of a Symposium, Eugene, Oregon, June 1984
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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.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Preface | pp. vii–viii
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Narrative connectives in SùpyìréRobert Carlson | pp. 1–19
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Cognitive constraints on information flowWallace Chafe | pp. 21–51
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Transitivity in grammar and cognitionScott DeLancey | pp. 53–68
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Actions and procedural directionsPeter Dixon | pp. 69–89
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Pragmatic funtions of word order in Sesotho acquisitionKatherine Demuth | pp. 91–108
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Psycholinguistic evidence for foregrounding and backgroundingMary S. Erbaugh | pp. 109–130
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The grammatical marking of theme in oral Polish narrativeVanessa Flashner | pp. 131–156
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Anaphora in popular written English narrativesBarbara A. Fox | pp. 157–174
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Beyond foreground and backgroundT. Givón | pp. 175–188
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The use of pitch phenomena in the structuring of storiesLorraine E. Kumpf | pp. 189–216
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On the status of SVO sentences in French discourseKnud Lambrecht | pp. 217–261
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On the role of conditionals in Godié procedural discourseLynell Marchese | pp. 263–280
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Is basic word order universal?Marianne Mithun | pp. 281–328
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Encoding events in Kalam and English: different logics for reporting experienceAndrew Pawley | pp. 329–360
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Word order in intransitive clauses in High and Low Malay of the late 19th centuryEllen Rafferty | pp. 361–381
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The functional distribution of preposed and postposed ‘if’ and ‘when’ clauses in written discourseVioleta Ramsey | pp. 383–408
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“Vividness” and “narrative events” in Japanese conversational narrativesPolly E. Szatrowski | pp. 409–433
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“Subordination” and narrative event structureSandra A. Thompson | pp. 435–454
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Linguistic reflections of cognitive eventsRussell S. Tomlin | pp. 455–479
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Cross-clause relations and temporal sequence in narrative and beyondBenji Wald | pp. 481–512
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