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Publication details [#23000]
Waugh, Linda R. and Monique Monville-Burston. 1986. Aspect and discourse function: The French simple past in newspaper usage. Language 62 (4) : 846–877. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
An analysis of the French simple past in newspaper texts. The simple past is said to have cognitive characteristics (detachment within a universe of discourse and dimansionalized figure), from which it derives its foregrounding function in discourse as well as a number of other functions.