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Publication details [#1323]
Bernardo, Robert. 1980. Subjecthood and consciousness. In Chafe, Wallace L., ed. The pear stories: Cognitive, cultural, and linguistic aspects of narrative production. Ablex Publishing Company. pp. 275–299.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
Subjecthood in English, approached from the standpoint of discourse production, is shown to be dependent upon the apparatus of consciousness. B. addresses the following question: when the speaker intends to express a state or event with a clause, what determines which entity gets expressed as the subject of the clause?