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Publication details [#21139]

Prince, Ellen F. 1992. The ZPG letter: Subjects, definiteness, and information-status. In Mann, William C. and Sandra A. Thompson, eds. Discourse description: Diverse linguistic analyses of a fund-raising text. John Benjamins. pp. 295–326.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

appellative | definiteness | discourse analysis | letter | text organization

Annotation

This paper examines what general texthood principles can be discerned from the ZPG fund-raising letter and explores the differences between subjects and nonsubjects with regard to the phenomenon of definiteness and the information status of the represented entities.