Grounding in English and Arabic news discourse / Esam N. Khalil.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Khalil, Esam N.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 82.

Pragmatics & beyond, 0922-842X ; new ser. 82

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Grammar, Comparative--Arabic.

English language.

Arabic language--Grammar, Comparative--English.

Arabic language.

English language--Discourse analysis.

Arabic language--Discourse analysis.

Journalism--Language.

Journalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2000.

Summary:

Grounding in English and Arabic News Discourse explores the discourse notion of grounding (viz. the foreground-background structure), and examines it in the various structures that occur in short news texts. A text-level approach to grounding and the differentiation between several core concepts relating to the various textual and non-textual structures, distinguish the book from other approaches in the field.A corpus-based analysis focuses on sentence-initial expressions and examines the grounding-signalling function of several markers in both English and Arabic. The analysis captures constraints on the occurrence of particular markers, and the extensive illustrative examples explain the strategies that writers employ to cope with problems of recasting grounding-values in news texts. The author also shows how the failure to signal appropriate grounding-values is likewise associated with the failure to deliver the appropriate type of text.Grounding is a relatively unexplored area of investigation in Arabic (text)linguistics, and the study identifies a series of previously unrecognized language features, highlighting the discourse pragmatic function that syntax serves.The book will be invaluable to researchers and students of discourse, pragmatics, contrastive rhetoric, and communication. It will also be of interest to all those involved in translation and intercultural studies.

Contents:

GROUNDING IN ENGLISH AND ARABIC NEWS DISCOURSE

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Preface

Chapter 1. Overview

Chapter 2. The Foreground-Background Structure as a Textual Phenomenon

Chapter 3. Schematic Manifestations of Text-Level Grounding

Chapter 4. Syntactic Manifestations of Text-Level Grounding

Chapter 5. Initial Position Marking of Grounding: The Case of Arabic News

Chapter 6. Sentence-Initial Markers

Chapter 7. Discussion

Appendix I: Glossary of Notions Used in the Study

Appendix II: Transliteration System

References

Index

PRAGMATICS AND BEYOND NEW SERIES.

Notes:

Enlargement of author's thesis (Ph. D)--University of Amsterdam, 1999.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-270) and index.

ISBN:

9786612163142

9781282163140

1282163140

9789027298942

9027298947

OCLC:

70768991