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The Thread of Discourse

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Author(s): Joseph E. Grimes
Series: Janua Linguarum. Series Minor, 207
Edition: 1
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Year: 1975

Language: English
Commentary: Merged from individual chapters in LibGen SciMag
Pages: 396

Preface
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
Bibliography
Index