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Publication details [#38949]

Dorgeloh, Heidrun. 2004. Conjunction in sentence and discourse: sentence-initial and discourse structure. Journal of Pragmatics 36 (10) : 1761–1779.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse analysis | discourse structure | discourse type | historical linguistics | pragmatics

Language as a subject

English, Early-modern

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This text analytic study demonstrates that the evolution towards less narrative academic genres in the Early Modern English time, negatively affects the use of sentence-initial 'and' and influences the relation between discourse coherence and discourse type.