The Thread of Discourse / Joseph E. Grimes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grimes, Joseph E., author.

Series:

Janua Linguarum. Series Minor

Janua Linguarum. Series Minor ; 207

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discourse analysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (418 p.)

Edition:

3rd printing 1984. Reprint 2015

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Frontmatter

PREFACE

CONTENTS

1. Why discourse study?

2. Discourse so far

3. Events and participants in discourse

4. Non-events in discourse

5. The speaker and hearer in discourse

6. Kinds of information in discourse

7. Constituency in discourse

8. Semantic role structure

9. Semantic derivation

10. Other relationships among predicates

11. The arguments of propositions

12. Referential indices

13. The grammar of semantic productions

14. Rhetorical structure

15. Modality

16. Discourse semantics and the surface hierarchy

17. Linear organization

18. Participant orientation

19. Cohesion

20. Reference

21. Staging

22. Topicalization

23. Variability

24. Postsemantic shaping

Appendix. Thematic linkage in Natnbiquara narrative / Kroeker, Menno H.

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

9783110886474

3110886472

OCLC:

979588143