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1 online resource (viii, 214 pages) |
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Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 147 |
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Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 147
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| Contents |
Ch. 1. Text, discourse and cognition : an introduction / Tuija Virtanen -- Ch. 2. Language, discourse, and cognition : retrospects and prospects / Robert de Beaugrande -- Ch. 3. On the discourse basis of person agreement / Anna Siewierska -- Ch. 4. The information structure of bilingual meaning : a constructivist approach to Californian Finnish conversation / M.M. Jocelyne Fernandez-Vest -- Ch. 5. Point of departure : cognitive aspects of sentence-initial adverbials / Tuija Virtanen -- Ch. 6. What is foregrounded in narratives? : hypotheses for the cognitive basis of foregrounding / Brita Warvik -- Ch. 7. From legal knowledge to legal discourse -- and back again / Lita Lundquist -- Ch. 8. Conditionals : your space or mine? / Anne Marie Bulow-Moller -- Ch. 9. Communicative fragments and the interpretation of discourse / Martina Bjorklund -- Ch. 10. Drawing the line : a contested conceptual model in Danish 'child care talk' / Peter Harder |
| Summary |
This book explores the overlapping area of study that discourse linguists and cognitive linguists are interested in. It procedes from considerations of information structuring, coherence and foregrounding to those of negotiation of meaning in situational and cultural contexts. The cognitive issues brought to the fore range from assumptions that we make about the interlocuters' memory constraints, the relative salience that we give to and recognize in elements of discourse, prototypicality and the figure-ground distinction reflected in language use, locative concerns, iconicity, negotiation bet |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Discourse analysis -- Psychological aspects
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Cognition.
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Cognition
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cognition.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Vocabulary.
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REFERENCE -- Word Lists.
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Cognition
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Discourse analysis -- Psychological aspects
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Discourse analysis.
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Análise do discurso (aspectos cognitivos)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Virtanen, Tuija
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| ISBN |
9783110892895 |
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3110892898 |
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