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Publication details [#21138]

Chafe, Wallace. 1992. The flow of ideas in a sample of written language. In Mann, William C. and Sandra A. Thompson, eds. Discourse description: Diverse linguistic analyses of a fund-raising text. John Benjamins. pp. 267–294.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

appellative | discourse analysis | language and thought | letter

Annotation

This paper examines how and to what extent the natural constraints of thought and language flow are relevant to written language, and in particular to the sample made up by a fund-raising letter.