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Publication details [#20278]
Givón, Talmy. 1987. Beyond foreground and background. In Tomlin, Russell S., ed. Coherence and grounding in discourse: Outcome of a symposium, Eugene, Oregon, June 1984. John Benjamins. pp. 175–188. 
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
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Annotation
The author discusses the notion of foreground/background, and points out a number of weak points of this distinction, such as its strictly binary character.