From Discourse Process to Grammatical Construction

From Discourse Process to Grammatical Construction
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Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages : 197
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ISBN-10 : 9789027285911
ISBN-13 : 9027285918
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Book Synopsis From Discourse Process to Grammatical Construction by : Ronald Geluykens

Download or read book From Discourse Process to Grammatical Construction written by Ronald Geluykens and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1992-10-16 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study deals with interactional processes in conversational discourse, and the way they may get 'syntacticized' into grammatical constructions. It investigates the link between discourse function and syntactic form, and the ways in which grammatical form is a reflection on communicative function, through examining the communicative functions of Left-Dislocation in English. The investigation is corpus-based, and focuses on spontaneous conversation, but other discourse types are also taken into account. The overall perspective is resolutely empirical, and preconceptions about the possible functions of Left-Dislocation are avoided. Contents 1. Theoretical preliminaries; 2. Referent-introduction (1): interaction; 3. Referent-introduction (2): recoverability; 4. Referent-introduction (3): topicality; 5. Other functions of LD; 6. Prosodic aspects of LD; 7. LD in other discourse types; 8. A broader perspecitive; 9. General conclusion; Notes, Appendices, References, Subject and author indices.


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