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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, L1-acquisition of

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.