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Publication details [#38922]

Porhiel, Sylvie. 2004. Linguistic controls that are used to assess a reader’s understanding. Journal of Pragmatics 36 : 1009–1035.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

prepositional phrase | reader

Language as a subject

French

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper deals with detached prepositional phrases in French, which can be broken down into thematic and universe-of-discourse introducers, linguistic controls that are used by writers to assess a reader’s understanding.