Publications

Publication details [#25905]

Ji, Shaojun. 2002. Identifying episode transitions. Journal of Pragmatics 34 (9) : 1257–1271.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse analysis | episode transition | narrative | thematic continuity

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

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Annotation

This study on language user's conception of episode transition and its role in the organization of narrative discourse, demonstrates that major changes in thematic, temporal, or spatial continuity define these transitions and thus mark episode boundaries.