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Publication details [#28437]
Hardy, Donald E. and Amy Leuchtmann. 1996. Topic versus cohesion in the prediction of causal ordering in English conversation. Discourse Processes 21 (2) : 237–254. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Ablex Publishing Company
ISBN
0163-853X
Annotation
This study deals with subject topicality and noun phrase cohesion in the prediction of causal ordering, testing Schiffrin's (1985) hypothesis on topic continuity and Schlobinski and Schütze-Coburn's critique on the use of topic as a uniting and distorting metaphor.