Publications

Publication details [#45700]

Ji, Shaojun. 2007. A textual perspective on Givón's quantity principle. Journal of Pragmatics 39 (2) : 292–304.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

code | information processing | narrative | text analysis

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study, based on an analysis of English narrative texts, supports Givón's quantity principle, that less predictable information is granted more coding material.