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Keenan, Elinor Ochs and Bambi B. Schieffelin. 1976. Topic as a discourse notion: A study of topic in the conversations of children and adults. In Li, Charles N., ed. Subject and topic. Academic Press. pp. 335–384.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
discourse topic | discourse topic, L1-acquisition of | proposition | thematic continuity | topic change | topic initiation

Annotation

K. and S. address the issue of how topics are initiated, sustained, and dropped in natural discourse. In their opinion, topic is not a simple NP but a proposition.

Reprints

Ochs, Elinor and Bambi B. Schieffelin. 1983. In Ochs, Elinor and Bambi B. Schieffelin, eds. Acquiring conversational competence. Routledge and Kegan Paul. pp. 66–113.