Publications

Publication details [#44004]

Vries, Lourens De. 2006. Areal pragmatics of New Guinea: Thematization, distribution and recapitulative linkage in Papuan narratives. Journal of Pragmatics 38 (6) : 811–828.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse structure | narrative | pragmatics | thematization

Language as a subject

Languages, Papuan

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper discusses Papuan speakers' areal discourse preferences/pragmatic patterns of thematization, distribution and recapitulative linkage.