Introduction: topic in grammar and disco
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DITTMAR, NORBERT
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Article
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1992
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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG
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English
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Can we consider "topic" a GRAMMATICAL category? If we cannot, what advantage can there be to calling the "discourse topic" simply "theme" from a PRAGMATIC perspective? 1 Can we bridge this terminological gap by making a distinction between "major" and "minor" topic, as Vasconcellos suggests in this