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Publication details [#23418]

Givón, Talmy. 1984. Prolegomena to discourse-pragmatics. Journal of Pragmatics 8 (4) : 489–516.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
Italian
Keywords
background information | coherence | focus | foregrounding | new information | thematic continuity
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Annotation

The author presents some information-theoretic preliminaries to discourse pragmatics by delineating a number of basic concepts, such as `coherence', `thematic structure', and all types of information status (background, foreground, etc.)