Sentence And Discourse

Author : Jacqueline Guéron
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191059827

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Sentence and Discourse by Jacqueline Guéron Pdf

This book looks at the relationship between the structure of the sentence and the organization of discourse. While a sentence obeys specific grammatical rules, the coherence of a discourse is instead dependent on the relations between the sentences it contains. In this volume, leading syntacticians, semanticists, and philosophers examine the nature of these relations, where they come from, and how they apply. Chapters in Part I address points of sentence grammar in different languages, including mood and tense in Spanish, definite determiners in French and Bulgarian, and the influence of aktionsart on the acquisition of tense by English, French, and Chinese children. Part II looks at modes of discourse, showing for example how discourse relations create implicatures and how Indirect Discourse differs from Free Indirect Discourse. The studies conclude that the relations between sentences that make a discourse coherent are already encoded in sentence grammar and that, once established, these relations influence the meaning of individual sentences.

Author : Scott Thornbury
Publisher : MACMILLAN
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Discourse analysis
ISBN : 1405064072

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Beyond the Sentence by Scott Thornbury Pdf

How do we design sentences to fit their purposes and how do we combine them to communicate complex, contextualized meanings? This work takes discourse apart to show how it is organized and how it aids communication.

Author : Sofiana Lindemann
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783823302100

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Special Indefinites in Sentence and Discourse by Sofiana Lindemann Pdf

Das vorliegende Buch untersucht die semantischen und diskurs-pragmatischen Eigenschaften indefiniter Nominalphrasen. Dabei wird der Zusammenhang zwischen den folgenden zwei Faktoren untersucht: (i) der referenziellen Form (markierte indefinite Nominalphrasen vs. unmarkierte indefinite Nominalphrasen), und (ii) dem diskursstrukturierenden Potential. Durch eine sprachvergleichende Studie mit Schwerpunkt auf Englisch, Deutsch und Rumänisch, wird die Analyse der Funktionen unterschiedlicher indefiniten Nominalphrasen empirisch gestützt und weiterentwickelt. Damit wird die Arbeit zu einem besseren Verständnis von Textstruktur, den kognitiven Grundlagen von Textproduktion und Textverständnis, sowie den allgemeinen Prinzipien der Kommunikation zwischen Gesprächsteilnehmern beitragen.

Author : Joan L. Bybee,Michael Noonan
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027225850

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Complex Sentences in Grammar and Discourse by Joan L. Bybee,Michael Noonan Pdf

The papers in this volume in honor of Sandra Annear Thompson deal with complex sentences, an important topic in Thompson's career. The focus of the contributions is on the ways in which the grammatical properties of complex sentences are shaped by the communicative context in which they are produced, an approach to grammatical analysis that Thompson pioneered and developed in the course of her distinguished career.

Author : Günther Grewendorf,Thomas Ede Zimmermann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781614511601

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Discourse and Grammar by Günther Grewendorf,Thomas Ede Zimmermann Pdf

Bringing together papers from various subfields of theoretical linguistics, this volume gives a representative glimpse of current research on form and function in grammar. Its overarching topic is as old as it is hot: the relation between the major clause types as determined in syntax, and their canonical or idiosyncratic roles in discourse as characterized in pragmatic terms. Though none of the papers addresses this topic in its full breadth, they can all be seen to make their specific contributions to it, scrutinizing the pertinent aspects of the grammatical interfaces and elaborating detailed case studies. The first part of this collection comprises three papers (by Asher, Portner, and van Rooy & Franke) devoted to the semantics/pragmatics interface. The second part, with contributions by Rizzi, Saito, and Belletti, deals with the question of how the constitution of sentence types can be related to properties of functional categories in the clausal periphery.The last four papers (Bošković, van Riemsdijk, Bauke & Roeper, Williams) concern the interaction of lexical elements and clausal functional categories, revealing unexpected parallels between clause structure and the internal structure, particularly in lexical categories.

Author : Knud Lambrecht
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1996-11-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781316582411

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Information Structure and Sentence Form by Knud Lambrecht Pdf

Why do speakers of all languages use different grammatical structures under different communicative circumstances to express the same idea? Professor Lambrecht explores the relationship between the structure of the sentence and the linguistic and extra-linguistic context in which it is used. His analysis is based on the observation that the structure of a sentence reflects a speaker's assumption about the hearer's state of knowledge and consciousness at the time of the utterance. This relationship between speaker assumptions and formal sentence structure is governed by rules and conventions of grammar, in a component called 'information structure'. Four independent but interrelated categories are analysed: presupposition and assertion, identifiability and activation, topic, and focus.

Author : Miguel Ańgel Martińez-Cabeza
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Discourse analysis, Narrative
ISBN : 8484444708

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The Study of Language Beyond the Sentence by Miguel Ańgel Martińez-Cabeza Pdf

Author : Paul Portner,Claudia Maienborn,Klaus von Heusinger
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110589863

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Semantics - Sentence and Information Structure by Paul Portner,Claudia Maienborn,Klaus von Heusinger Pdf

Read this book to get a deeper understanding of a wide range of semantics research on complex sentences and meaning in discourse. These in-depth articles from leading names in their fields cover the core concepts of sentential semantics such as tense, modality, conditionality, propositional attitudes, scope, negation, and coordination. The highly cited material, covers questions, imperatives, copular clauses, and existential sentences. It also includes essential research on sentence types, and explains central concepts in the theory of information structure and discourse structure, such as topics, cohesion and coherence, accessibility and discourse particles.

Author : Deborah Cameron,Ivan Panovic
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781473904354

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Working with Written Discourse by Deborah Cameron,Ivan Panovic Pdf

"An outstanding introduction to discourse analysis of written language in an age that is more and more characterized by multilingual, digital, and generically hybrid texts. In an accessible style, Working with Written Discourse illustrates how these texts can be analyzed employing a wide variety of approaches that are critical, multidisciplinary, and productive." - Professor Jaffer Sheyholislami, Carleton University "Comprehensive and up-to-the-minute in its discussion of areas like multimodality and the new media, without overlooking ‘older’ media and more conventional writing. I will recommend it highly to students at all levels." - Dr Mark Sebba, Lancaster University Addressing the practicalities of research, and embracing the complexity and variety of written forms of language, this book: grounds readers in a broad range of concepts, debates and relevant methods focuses on both theoretical questions and the ‘how to’ of analysis is loaded with practical activities and advice on the design and execution of research highlights computer-mediated communication and new media discourse, from text messages and tweets to mobile phone novels and online encyclopedias draws on data from international and multilingual communities. The perfect companion to Deborah Cameron's best-selling Working with Spoken Discourse, this book equips readers with practical and conceptual tools to ask questions about written discourse, and to analyse the huge variety of texts that make up our linguistic landscape. It is the essential guide for students of discourse analysis in linguistics, media and communication studies, and for social researchers across the social sciences.

Author : Co Vet,Carl Vetters
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110902617

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Tense and Aspects in Discourse by Co Vet,Carl Vetters Pdf

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.

Author : Pamela Downing,Michael P. Noonan
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027229212

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Word Order in Discourse by Pamela Downing,Michael P. Noonan Pdf

This volume brings together a collection of 18 papers dealing with the problem of word order variation in discourse. Word order variation has often been treated as an essentially unpredictable phenomenon, a matter of selecting randomly one of the set of possible orders generated by the grammar. However, as the papers in this collection show, word order variation is not random, but rather governed by principles which can be subjected to scientific investigation and are common to all languages.The papers in this volume discuss word order variation in a diverse collection of languages and from a number of perspectives, including experimental and quantitative text based studies. A number of papers address the problem of deciding which order is 'basic' among the alternatives. The volume will be of interest to typologists, to other linguists interested in problems of word order variation, and to those interested in discourse syntax.

Author : Murray Singer
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135005634

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Psychology of Language (PLE: Psycholinguistics) by Murray Singer Pdf

Originally published in 1990, this comprehensive volume addresses the central issues of sentence and discourse processes, with particular emphasis placed on reading and listening comprehension. The text material is accessible to both upper-level undergraduate and graduate students and informative for professionals and educators. In this regard, this uncommon volume identifies the logic of both the specific experimental manipulations that are described, and the more general on-line and memory measures frequently invoked. The principles presented in the text are supported by hundreds of numbered and unnumbered examples, and by precise tables and figures.

Author : Flora Klein-Andreu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Discourse analysis
ISBN : UCAL:B4283108

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Discourse Perspectives on Syntax by Flora Klein-Andreu Pdf

Author : Peter Erdmann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783111637754

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Discourse and Grammar by Peter Erdmann Pdf

Author : Harm Pinkster
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1280 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780192608895

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The Oxford Latin Syntax by Harm Pinkster Pdf

In this two-volume work, the first full-scale treatment of its kind in English, Harm Pinkster applies contemporary linguistic theories and the findings of traditional grammar to the study of Latin syntax. He takes a non-technical and principally descriptive approach, based on literary and non-literary texts dating from c.250 BC to c.450 AD. The volumes contain a wealth of examples to illustrate the grammatical phenomena under discussion, many of them from the works of Plautus and Cicero, alongside extensive references to other sources of examples such as the Oxford Latin Dictionary and the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. While the first volume explored the simple clause, this second volume focuses on the complex sentence and discourse. The first three chapters examine different types of subordinate clause; the following four then explore relative clauses, coordination, comparison, and secondary predicates. Later chapters investigate information structure and extraclausal expressions, word order, and discourse and related features. The Oxford Latin Syntax will be a valuable and up-to-date resource both for professional Latinists and all linguists with an interest in Classics.