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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
©2000.
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| Colección: | Pragmatics & beyond ;
new ser. 82. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Notas: | Enlargement of author's thesis (Ph. D)--University of Amsterdam, 1999. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 274 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-270) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027298942 9027298947 9781556199820 1556199821 9789027251015 9027251010 1282163140 9781282163140 |
| ISSN: | 0922-842X ; |