Topic Continuity in Discourse: A Quantitative Cross-Language Study
(Book #3 in the Typological Studies in Language Series)
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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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:9027228671
ISBN13:9789027228673
Release Date:January 1983
Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Company
Length:492 Pages
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