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035 _a(OCoLC)9131532
040 _aDLC
_cDLC
_dDLC
_dBD-DhEWU
_beng
041 _aeng
050 0 0 _aP302
_b.B76 1983
082 0 4 _a401.41
_bBRD 1983
100 1 _aBrown, Gillian.
_9279
245 1 0 _aDiscourse analysis /
_cGillian Brown, George Yule.
260 _aCambridge ;
_aNew York :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c1983.
300 _axii, 288 p. ;
_c24 cm.
440 0 _aCambridge textbooks in linguistics
_9280
500 _aIncludes indexes.
504 _aBibliography: p. 272-283.
505 _tTOC
_aPart 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.
520 _aSummary: In this textbook, first published in 1983, the authors provide an extensive overview of the many and diverse approaches to the study of discourse.
526 _aEnglish
590 _aSagar Shahanawaz
650 0 _aDiscourse analysis.
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700 1 _aYule, George,
_d1947-
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856 4 2 _3Table of contents
_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/cam023/82023571.html
856 4 2 _3Publisher description
_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam022/82023571.html
856 4 2 _3WorldCat details
_uhttp://www.worldcat.org/title/discourse-analysis/oclc/9131532&referer=brief_results
856 4 2 _3E-book Fulltext
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