Publications

Publication details [#51008]

Wood, Tahir. 2009. Abstraction and adherence in discourse processes. Journal of Pragmatics 41 (3) : 484–496.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

abstractness | discourse process | intertextuality | meaning | narrative

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This theoretical paper focuses on abstraction as an inter-textual phenomenon in diachronic discourse processes and on the often contested and problematic nature of meaning of hyper-abstract concepts.