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Topic continuity in discourse : a quantitative cross-language study /
The functional notion of "topic" or "topicality" has suffered, traditionally, from two distinct drawbacks. First, it has remained largely ill defined or intuitively defined. And second, quite often its definition boiled down to structure-dependent circularity. This volume represe...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
1983.
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| Colección: | Typological studies in language ;
v. 3. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The functional notion of "topic" or "topicality" has suffered, traditionally, from two distinct drawbacks. First, it has remained largely ill defined or intuitively defined. And second, quite often its definition boiled down to structure-dependent circularity. This volume represents a major departure from past practices, without rejecting both their intuitive appeal and the many good results yielded by them. First, "topic" and "topicality" are re-analyzed as a scalar property, rather than as an either/or discrete prime. Second, the graded property of "topicality" is firmly connected with sensi. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (498 pages). |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027280251 9027280258 1283314207 9781283314206 9786613314208 661331420X |