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Kresin, Susan C. 1998. Deixis and thematic hierarchies in Russian narrative discourse. Journal of Pragmatics 30 (4) : 421–435.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
deixis | discourse | discourse topic | hierarchy | narrative | reference
Language as a subject
Russian
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166
Journal WWW
www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

It is argued that in Russian narrative discourse, the narrator's deictic means of reference can create a sense of thematic hierarchy, as is illustrated by the metaphorization of the Russian distal demonstrative TOT.