TY - BOOK AU - Brown,Gillian AU - Yule,George TI - Discourse analysis SN - 0521241448 : AV - P302 .B76 1983 U1 - 401.41 PY - 1983/// CY - Cambridge, New York PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Discourse analysis N1 - Includes indexes; Bibliography: p. 272-283; TOC; Part I: Introduction: linguistic forms and function -- The functions of language -- Spoken and written language -- Sentence and utterance -- Part II: The role of context in interpretation -- Pragmatics and discourse context -- The context of situation -- The expanding context -- The principles of 'local interpretation' and of 'analogy' -- Part III: Topic and the representation of discourse content -- Discourse fragments and the notion of 'topic' -- Sentential topic -- Discourse topic -- Relevance and speaking topically -- Speaker's topic -- Topic boundary makers -- Discourse topic and the representation of discourse content -- Problems with the proposition-based representation of discourse content -- Memory for text-content: story-grammars -- Representing text-content as a network -- Part IV: 'Staging' and the representation of discourse structure -- The linearisation problem -- Theme -- Thematisation and 'staging' -- Part V: Information structure -- The structure of information -- Information structure and syntactic form -- Th psychological status of 'givenness' -- Conclusion -- Part VI: The nature of reference in text and in discourse -- What is 'text'? -- Discourse reference -- Pronouns in discourse -- Part VII: Coherence in the interpretation of discourse -- Coherence in discourse -- Computing communicative function -- Speech acts -- Using knowledge of the world -- Top-down and bottom-up processing -- Representing background knowledge -- Determining the inferences to be made -- Inferences as missing links -- Inferences and non-automatic connections --- Inferences as filling in gaps or discontinuities in interpretation -- Conclusion; English N2 - Summary: In this textbook, first published in 1983, the authors provide an extensive overview of the many and diverse approaches to the study of discourse UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/cam023/82023571.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam022/82023571.html UR - http://www.worldcat.org/title/discourse-analysis/oclc/9131532&referer=brief_results UR - http://lib.ewubd.edu/ebook/6865 ER -