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
Summary
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
Notes
Enlargement of author's thesis (Ph. D)--University of Amsterdam, 1999
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-270) and index
