Text and Discourse Constitution: Empirical Aspects, Theoretical Approaches

✍ Scribed by János S. Petöfi (editor)

Publisher: De Gruyter
Year: 1987
Tongue: English
Leaves: 528
Series: Research in Text Theory; 4
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Part I
Intonation and Discourse
Sentence Sequences and Cotextual Connexity
Speech Act Sequences
Topic and Focus of a Sentence and the Patterning of a Text
Connective Relations – Connective Expressions – Connective Structures
Temporal and Aspectual Relations as Text-Constitutive Elements
Compositional Structure: Macrostructures
Part II
Word, Sentence, and Text Meaning
Some Issues in the Theory of Metaphor
Inferences as (De)compositional Principles
Part III
Context and Context Change
Things in Space and Time
Part IV
‘Text’/‘Discourse’ Definitions
Static and Dynamic Aspects of Text Constitution
Connectedness of Texts: A Bibliographical Survey
Name Index
Subject Index

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