TY - GEN T1 - Grounding in English and Arabic news discourse T2 - Pragmatics & beyond ; A1 - Khalil, Esam N. LA - English PP - Amsterdam ; Philadelphia PB - John Benjamins Pub. Co. YR - 2000 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocm70768991 AB - Grounding in English and Arabic News Discourse explores the discourse notion of grounding (viz. the foreground-background structure), and examines it in the various structures that occur in short news texts. A text-level approach to grounding and the differentiation between several core concepts relating to the various textual and non-textual structures, distinguish the book from other approaches in the field. A corpus-based analysis focuses on sentence-initial expressions and examines the grounding-signalling function of several markers in both English and Arabic. The analysis captures constra. OP - 274 NO - Enlargement of author's thesis (Ph. D)--University of Amsterdam, 1999. CN - PE1130.A8 K484 2000eb SN - 9789027298942 SN - 9027298947 SN - 9781556199820 SN - 1556199821 SN - 9789027251015 SN - 9027251010 SN - 1282163140 SN - 9781282163140 KW - English language : Grammar, Comparative : Arabic. KW - Arabic language : Grammar, Comparative : English. KW - English language : Discourse analysis. KW - Arabic language : Discourse analysis. KW - Journalism : Language. KW - Anglais (Langue) : Grammaire comparée : Arabe. KW - Arabe (Langue) : Grammaire comparée : Anglais. KW - Anglais (Langue) : Analyse du discours. KW - Arabe (Langue) : Analyse du discours. KW - Journalisme : Langage. KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES : Grammar & Punctuation. KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES : Linguistics : Syntax. KW - Arabic language : Discourse analysis KW - Arabic language : Grammar, Comparative : English KW - English language : Discourse analysis KW - English language : Grammar, Comparative : Arabic KW - Journalism : Language KW - Nieuws. KW - Informatiestructuren (linguïstiek) KW - Tekstanalyse. KW - Engels. KW - Arabisch. KW - Proefschriften (vorm) ER -