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Publication details [#39070]
GarroD, S. and Tony Sanford. 1988. Thematic subjecthood and cognitive constraints on discourse structure. Journal of Pragmatics 12 (4) : 519–534. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
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Place, Publisher
Elsevier
Journal WWW
Annotation
This paper argues that the narrative distinction between thematic subjects and subsidiary characters represents a fundamental cognitive constraint on how writers and readers can render information about different characters in a story.