Publications

Publication details [#5430]

Keenan, Elinor Ochs and Bambi B. Schieffelin. 1976. Foregrounding referents: A reconsideration of left dislocation in discourse. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 2 : 240–257.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
conversation | foregrounding | left-dislocation

Annotation

On the phenomenon of left dislocation considered from the point of view of its function in everyday conversation.

Reprints

Ochs, Elinor and Bambi B. Schieffelin. 1983. In Ochs, Elinor and Bambi B. Schieffelin, eds. Acquiring conversational competence. Routledge and Kegan Paul. pp. 158–174.