Publications
Messerli, Thomas C. 2019. Subtitles and cinematic meaning-making: Interlingual subtitles as textual agents. Multilingua 38 (5) : 529–546.
Cornish, Francis. 2012. Micro-syntax, macro-syntax, foregrounding and backgrounding in discourse: When indexicals target discursively subsidiary information. Belgian Journal of Linguistics 29 : 6–34.
Pang, Kam-yiu S. 2010. Eponymy and life-narratives: The effect of foregrounding on proper names. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (5) : 1321–1349.
Chovanec, Jan. 2008. Focus on form: foregrounding devices in football reporting. Discourse & Communication 2 (3) : 219–242.
Miall, David S. 2008. Foregrounding and feeling in response to narrative. In Bortolussi, Marisa, Sonia Zyngier, Anna Chesnokova and Jan Auracher, eds. Directions in Empirical Literary Studies. In honor of Willie van Peer. (Linguistic approaches to literature 5). John Benjamins. pp. 89–102.
Was, Christopher A., Sabine Gueraud, Anne E. Cook and Edward J. O'Brien. 2007. Foregrounding Effects During Reading, Revisited. Discourse Processes 44 (2) : 91–111.
Li, Wendan. 2000. The pragmatic function of numeral-classifiers in Mandarin Chinese. Journal of Pragmatics 32 (8) : 1113–1133.
Rubovitz, Tali. 1999. Evidential-Existentials: The interaction between discourse and sentence structure. Journal of Pragmatics 31 (8) : 1025–1040.
Hansen, Mai-Britt Mosegaard. 1997. Alors and Donc in Spoken French: A Reanalysis. Journal of Pragmatics 28 (2) : 153–187.
Wilbur, Ronnie B. 1994. Foregrounding structures in American Sign Language. Journal of Pragmatics 22 (6) : 647–672.
Bakker, Egbert J. 1991. Foregrounding and indirect discourse: Temporal subclauses in a Herodotean short story. Journal of Pragmatics 16 (3) : 225–247.
Bolkestein, A. Machtelt. 1987. Discourse functions of predications: The background/foreground distinction and tense and voice in Latin main and subordinate clauses. In Nuyts, Jan and Georges De Schutter, eds. Getting one's words into line: On word order and functional grammar. Foris. pp. 163–178.
Givón, Talmy. 1987. Beyond foreground and background. In Tomlin, Russell S., ed. Coherence and grounding in discourse: Outcome of a symposium, Eugene, Oregon, June 1984. John Benjamins. pp. 175–188.
Kumpf, Lorraine E. 1987. The use of pitch phenomena in the structuring of stories. In Tomlin, Russell S., ed. Coherence and grounding in discourse: Outcome of a symposium, Eugene, Oregon, June 1984. John Benjamins. pp. 189–216.
Thompson, Sandra A. 1987. 'Subordination' and narrative event structure. In Tomlin, Russell S., ed. Coherence and grounding in discourse: Outcome of a symposium, Eugene, Oregon, June 1984. John Benjamins. pp. 435–454.