Grounding in English and Arabic news discourse /
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 rel...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Sprog: | engelsk |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
©2000.
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| Serier: | Pragmatics & beyond ;
new ser. 82. |
| Online adgang: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=253455 |
Indholdsfortegnelse:
- GROUNDING IN ENGLISH AND ARABIC NEWS DISCOURSE; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface; Chapter 1. Overview; Chapter 2. The Foreground-Background Structure as a Textual Phenomenon; Chapter 3. Schematic Manifestations of Text-Level Grounding; Chapter 4. Syntactic Manifestations of Text-Level Grounding; Chapter 5. Initial Position Marking of Grounding: The Case of Arabic News; Chapter 6. Sentence-Initial Markers; Chapter 7. Discussion; Appendix I: Glossary of Notions Used in the Study; Appendix II: Transliteration System; References; Index.