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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Khalil, Esam N.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2000.
Colección:Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 82.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.