The Thread of Discourse
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The Thread of Discourse

  1. 420 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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The Thread of Discourse

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Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. 1 Why discourse study?
  3. 1.Why linguists should not study discourse
  4. 2.Why linguists should study discourse
  5. 3.The use of discourse studies
  6. 2 Discourse so far
  7. 1.Rhetoric
  8. 2.Criticism
  9. 3.Exegesis
  10. 4.Linguistics
  11. 5.Empirical studies
  12. 6.The approach of this book
  13. 3 Events and participants in discourse
  14. 1.Events
  15. 2.Participants
  16. 4 Nonā€“events in discourse
  17. 1.Setting
  18. 2.Background
  19. 3.Evaluations
  20. 4.Collateral
  21. 5 The speaker and hearer in discourse
  22. 6 Kinds of information in discourse
  23. 1. A work sheet
  24. 2.Span analysis
  25. 3.Use of surface constructions
  26. 7 Constituency in discourse
  27. 1.Partitioning principles
  28. 2.Levels of organization
  29. 8 Semantic role structure
  30. 1.Content, cohesion, and staging
  31. 2.Role relationships
  32. 3.Orientation roles
  33. 4.Process roles
  34. 5.The agentive complex
  35. 6.Orientation-process counterparts
  36. 9 Semantic derivation
  37. 10 Other relationships among predicates
  38. 1.Associative relationships
  39. 2.Areas of meaning
  40. 11 The arguments of propositions
  41. 1.Constraints involving roles
  42. 2.Pseudoā€“predicates and consolidation
  43. 3.The complexity of arguments
  44. 4.Constraints not related to roles
  45. 12 Referential indices
  46. 13.The grammar of semantic productions
  47. 1.Formation
  48. 2.Transformation
  49. 3.Special mappings
  50. 14 Rhetorical structure
  51. 1.Paratactic predicates
  52. 2.Hypotactic predicates
  53. 3.Neutral predicates
  54. 15 Modality
  55. 1.Tense
  56. 2.Aspect
  57. 3.Mood
  58. 16 Discourse semantics and the surface hierarchy
  59. 1.Standard configurations
  60. 2.Alternatives to constituency grammars
  61. 17 Linear organization
  62. 18 Participant orientation
  63. 1.Permutations
  64. 2.Sequences of permutations
  65. 3.Permutation States
  66. 19 Cohesion
  67. 1.Information blocks
  68. 2.Information centers
  69. 3.Overlays
  70. 4.Information rate
  71. 20 Reference
  72. 1.The field of reference
  73. 2.Cohesive structure and reference
  74. 3.Viewpoint
  75. 21 Staging
  76. 1.Theme and modality
  77. 2.Theme and cohesive structure
  78. 3.Voice
  79. 4.Staging at various levels
  80. 22 Topicalization
  81. 1.Devices
  82. 2.Thematic partitioning
  83. 3.Tagging and reprise
  84. 4.Compound topicalization
  85. 23 Variability
  86. 24 Postsemantic shaping
  87. 1.Redundancy transformations
  88. 2.Semantic neutralization
  89. 3.Proposition consolidation
  90. 4.Performative saturation
  91. 5.Level formation
  92. Appendix. Thematic linkage in Nambiquara narrative
  93. Bibliography
  94. Index