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Publication details [#6331]
Longacre, Robert E. 1982. Discourse typology in relation to language typology. In Allén, Sture, ed. Text processing: Text analysis and generation, text typology and attribution. Proceedings of Nobel Symposium 51. Almqvist and Wiksell. pp. 457–486.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
On the intersection of two typologies, viz. that of languages and that of discourses. L. compares biblical Hebrew and Aguaruna (a Peruvian language) with respect to the question as to how their typological distinctions enter into the expression of differences among diverse types of monologic discourse.