The grammar of discourse /

The Second Edition of the Grammar of Discourse critically evaluates and updates its predecessor's major points, with new chapters increasing the coverage of paragraph and clause structure - the latter being handled in a new chapter which solves a problem posed in the original edition: how holis...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Longacre, Robert E.
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Plenum Press, [1996]
Edition:Second edition.
Series:Topics in language and linguistics.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Ch. 1. Monologue Discourse: Typology and Salience
  • Ch. 2. Monologue Discourse: Plot and Peak
  • Ch. 3. Combinations of Predications
  • Ch. 4. Intersentential Relations: Etic Paragraph Types
  • Ch. 5. Repartee: Dialogue Paragraphs
  • Ch. 6. Case of Roles
  • Ch. 7. Case Frames
  • Ch. 8. Surface Structure of Clauses
  • Ch. 9. A Framework for Discourse Analysis
  • Appendix: The Notional and Surface Structure of English Clauses.