By Ronald Geluykens
ISBN-10: 9027226113
ISBN-13: 9789027226112
This learn offers with interactional approaches in conversational discourse, and how they could get 'syntacticized' into grammatical buildings. It investigates the hyperlink among discourse functionality and syntactic shape, and the ways that grammatical shape is a mirrored image on communicative functionality, via reading the communicative services of Left-Dislocation in English. The research is corpus-based, and makes a speciality of spontaneous dialog, yet different discourse varieties also are taken under consideration. the final viewpoint is resolutely empirical, and preconceptions concerning the attainable services of Left-Dislocation are kept away from. Contents 1. Theoretical preliminaries; 2. Referent-introduction (1): interplay; three. Referent-introduction (2): recoverability; four. Referent-introduction (3): topicality; five. different features of LD; 6. Prosodic elements of LD; 7. LD in different discourse kinds; eight. A broader perspecitive; nine. common end; Notes, Appendices, References, topic and writer indices.
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It represents the division between highly interactive and less interactive discourse. Conversation is highly interactive, in that there is more than one active participant, and because of the turn-taking nature of conversation. g. speeches, etc) are less interactive; the same is true for written discourse. The fact that conversation is interactive in nature means that some attention has to be paid to the status of the participants. As far as the number of participants is concerned, conversation differs from other discourse types in the number of active participants it has; there are always at least two.
To make sure that this does not influence our analysis, we have included both face-to-face and telephone conversations in our data. In the written part of our corpus, a distinction is made between printed and unprinted discourse. This reflect to some extent the distinction between formal and informal discourse (though these are independent variables). The distinction, which seems quite an obvious one to make, is also present in the original Survey layout. Another distinction made in our written data is that between scientific and non-scientific discourse: a separate subsection is reserved for scientific (arts and sciences) writing.
Although this generalization seems true enough in most instances, this probably does not always need to be the case, as is shown by the following instances: (42) (43) As for the colleges, Cambridge is lovely. As for linguistics textbooks, the library has plenty of books. In both these cases, the 'REF is semantically more general than the 'gap'. In the above examples, all quasi-LDs have a PP as their 'REF. One might wonder whether it would also be possible to get an NP rather than a PP, as is the case for 'proper' LDs.
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