Discourse Continuity
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Topic Continuity In Discourse
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Author : Talmy Givón
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 1983-01-01
Topic Continuity In Discourse written by Talmy Givón and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983-01-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The functional notion of topic or topicality has suffered, traditionally, from two distinct drawbacks. First, it has remained largely ill defined or intuitively defined. And second, quite often its definition boiled down to structure-dependent circularity. This volume represents a major departure from past practices, without rejecting both their intuitive appeal and the many good results yielded by them. First, topic and topicality are re-analyzed as a scalar property, rather than as an either/or discrete prime. Second, the graded property of topicality is firmly connected with sensible cognitive notions culled from gestalt psychology, such as predictability or continuity. Third, we develop and utilize precise measures and quantified methods by which the property of topicality of clausal arguments can be studied in connected discourse, and thus be properly hinged in its rightful context, that of topic identification, maintenance and recoverability in discourse. Fourth, we show that many grammatical phenomena which used to be studied by linguists in isolation, all partake in one functional domain of grammar, that of topic identification. Finally, we demonstrate the validity of this new approach to the study of topic and topicality by applying the same text-based quantifying method to a number of typologically-diverse languages, in studying actual texts. Languages studied here are: Written and spoken English, spoken Spanish, Biblical Hebrew, Amharic, Hausa, Japanese, Chamorro and Ute.
Topic Continuity In Discourse
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Author : Talmy Givón
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 1983
Topic Continuity In Discourse written by Talmy Givón and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The functional notion of “topic” or “topicality” has suffered, traditionally, from two distinct drawbacks. First, it has remained largely ill defined or intuitively defined. And second, quite often its definition boiled down to structure-dependent circularity. This volume represents a major departure from past practices, without rejecting both their intuitive appeal and the many good results yielded by them. First, “topic” and “topicality” are re-analyzed as a scalar property, rather than as an either/or discrete prime. Second, the graded property of “topicality” is firmly connected with sensible cognitive notions culled from gestalt psychology, such as “predictability” or “continuity”. Third, we develop and utilize precise measures and quantified methods by which the property of “topicality” of clausal arguments can be studied in connected discourse, and thus be properly hinged in its rightful context, that of topic identification, maintenance and recoverability in discourse. Fourth, we show that many grammatical phenomena which used to be studied by linguists in isolation, all partake in one functional domain of grammar, that of topic identification. Finally, we demonstrate the validity of this new approach to the study of “topic” and “topicality” by applying the same text-based quantifying method to a number of typologically-diverse languages, in studying actual texts. Languages studied here are: Written and spoken English, spoken Spanish, Biblical Hebrew, Amharic, Hausa, Japanese, Chamorro and Ute.
Transitivity And Discourse Continuity In Chamorro Narratives
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Author : Ann M. Cooreman
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2011-07-13
Transitivity And Discourse Continuity In Chamorro Narratives written by Ann M. Cooreman and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-13 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics.
Topic Continuity In Discourse
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Author : T. Givón
language : es
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
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Discourse And The Continuity Of Reference
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Author : Cornelia Zelinsky-Wibbelt
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2011-09-06
Discourse And The Continuity Of Reference written by Cornelia Zelinsky-Wibbelt and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-06 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Topic Continuity In Discourse
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Release Date : 2003
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Topic Continuity In Discourse
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Author : T. Givón
language : es
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
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A Systemic Functional Account Of Discourse Continuity In Aphasic Conversations
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Author : Virginia Mary Peng
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
A Systemic Functional Account Of Discourse Continuity In Aphasic Conversations written by Virginia Mary Peng and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Aphasia categories.
Coherence Continuity And Cohesion
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Author : Kim Sydow Campbell
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-18
Coherence Continuity And Cohesion written by Kim Sydow Campbell and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-18 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
There is a need for general theoretical principles describing/explaining effective design -- those which demonstrate "unity" and enhance comprehension and usability. Theories of cohesion from linguistics and of comprehension in psychology are likely sources of such general principles. Unfortunately, linguistic approaches to discourse unity have focused exclusively on semantic elements such as synonymy or anaphora, and have ignored other linguistic elements such as syntactic parallelism and phonological alliteration. They have also overlooked the non-linguistic elements -- visual factors such as typography or color, and auditory components such as pitch or duration. In addition, linguistic approaches have met with criticism because they have failed to explain the relationship between semantic cohesive elements and coherence. On the other hand, psychological approaches to discourse comprehension have considered the impact of a wider range of discourse elements -- typographical cuing of key terms to enhance comprehension -- but have failed to provide general theoretical explanations for such observations. This volume uses Gestalt theory to provide general principles for predicting one aspect of coherence -- that of continuity -- across the entire range of discourse elements, and also to outline the relationship between cohesion and coherence. The theoretical core of this book argues that the cognitive principles that explain why humans "sense" unity in a succession of sounds (a whole musical piece) or in a configuration of visual shapes (a complete object) are the basis of principles which explain why we "sense" unity in oral, written, and electronically produced documents.
Relevance Theory Figuration And Continuity In Pragmatics
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Author : Agnieszka Piskorska
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2020-05-20
Relevance Theory Figuration And Continuity In Pragmatics written by Agnieszka Piskorska and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-20 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The chapters in this volume apply the methodology of relevance theory to develop accounts of various pragmatic phenomena which can be associated with the broadly conceived notion of style. Some of them are devoted to central cases of figurative language (metaphor, metonymy, puns, irony) while others deal with issues not readily associated with figurativeness (from multimodal communicative stimuli through strong and weak implicatures to discourse functions of connectives, particles and participles). Other chapters shed light on the use of specific communicative styles, ranging from hate speech to humour and humorous irony. Using the relevance-theoretic toolkit to analyse a spectrum of style-related issues, this volume makes a case for the model of pragmatics founded upon inference and continuity, understood as the non-existence of sharply delineated boundaries between classes of communicative phenomena.