The Grammar of Discourse (Topics in Language and Linguistics) - Hardcover

Longacre, Robert E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 030641273X ISBN 13: 9780306412738

Publisher: Plenum, 1995

Synopsis

1 Monologue Discourse.- 1.1 Discourse Typology in Notional and Surface Structures.- 1.1.1 Notional Types.- 1.1.2 Surface Structure Types.- 1.1.3 Skewing of Notional and Surface Structure.- 1.1.4 Embedding Relations of the Five Surface Structure Types.- 1.2 Main Line vs Supportive Material.- 1.3 The Composer.- 1.4 Plot And Similar Structures.- 1.4.1 Plot as Notional Structure.- 1.4.2 Correlation of Notional and Surface Features.- 1.4.3 Marking of the Surface Structure Peak.- 1.4.4 Similar Structures.- 2 Repartee.- 2.1 Simple Repartee.- 2.2 Complex Repartee.- 2.3 Abeyance Repartee.- 2.4 Compound Repartee.- 2.5 Non-Verbal Resolution and Further Paragraph Types.- 2.6 The Number of Speakers in a Dialogue.- 2.7 Out of Phase Relations Between Notional And Surface Structures.- 2.8 Repartee as A Game.- 2.9 Summary.- 3 Combination Of Predications.- 3.1 Conjoining.- 3.1.1 Coupling.- 3.1.2 Contrast.- 3.1.3 Comparison.- 3.2 Alternation.- 3.2.1 Alternation with Only Two Possible Alternatives.- 3.2.2 Alternation with More than Two Alternatives.- 3.3 Temporal.- 3.3.1 Overlap.- 3.3.2 Succession.- 3.4 Implication.- 3.4.1 Conditionality.- 3.4.2 Causation.- 3.4.3 Contrafactuality.- 3.4.4 Warning.- 3.5 Paraphrase.- 3.5.1 Equivalence Paraphrase.- 3.5.2 Negated Antonym Paraphrase and Similar Structures.- 3.5.3 Generic-specific Paraphrase.- 3.5.4 Amplification Paraphrase.- 3.5.5 Specific-generic Paraphrase.- 3.5.6 Contraction Paraphrase.- 3.5.7 Summary Paraphrase.- 3.6 Illustration.- 3.6.1 Simile.- 3.6.2 Exemplification.- 3.7 Deixis.- 3.7.1 Introduction.- 3.7.2 Identification.- 3.7.3 Some Further Varieties of Deixis.- 3.8 Attribution.- 3.8.1 Speech Attribution.- 3.8.2 Awareness Attribution.- 3.9 Frustration.- 3.9.1 Frustrated Coupling.- 3.9.2 Frustrated Succession.- 3.9.3 Frustrated Overlap.- 3.9.4 Frustrated Hypothesis.- 3.9.5 Frustrated Contingency.- 3.9.6 Frustrated Efficient Cause.- 3.9.7 Frustrated Final Cause.- 3.9.8 Frustrated Attribution.- 3.9.9 Frustrated Modality.- 3.9.10 Some Restrictions.- 3.10 Definition of Symbols.- 4 Cases or Roles.- 4.1 Experiencer.- 4.2 Patient.- 4.3 Agent.- 4.4 Range.- 4.5 Measure.- 4.6 Instrument.- 4.7 Locative.- 4.8 Source.- 4.9 Goal.- 4.10 Path.- 4.11 Peripheral Cases.- 4.12 Cases Posited by Hale and the Pikes.- 5 Case Frames.- 5.1 A Scheme of Case Frames.- 5.1.1 Ambient Case Frames.- 5.1.2 Ambient-Experiential Case Frames.- 5.1.3 Experiential Case Frames.- 5.1.4 Factual Knowledge Case Frames.- 5.1.5 Case Frames of Desire/Cognition.- 5.1.6 Case Frames of Sensation, etc.- 5.1.7 Physical Case Frames.- 5.1.8 Case Frames of Measure.- 5.1.9 Locative Case Frames.- 5.1.10 Case Frames of Motion, Propulsion, Locomotion.- 5.1.11 Case Frames Referring to Property.- 5.2 Further Systematic Concerns.- 5.2.1 Reflexives.- 5.2.2 Causatives.- 5.2.3 Surface Structure Passives.- 5.2.4 Existentials and Equatives.- 5.3 Relevance of Case Frames to Discourse.- 5.3.1 Generatively.- 5.3.2 Analytically.- 6 Some Further Levels of Notional Structure.- 6.1 Derivation.- 6.2 Inflection.- 6.2.1 Verb Inflection.- 6.2.2 Noun Inflection.- 6.3 Concretion.- 6.3.1 Nominal Concretions.- 6.3.2 Verb Concretions.- 6.4 Performatives.- 6.4.1 Repartee Performatives.- 6.4.2 Type-Specific Performatives.- 7 A Framework for Discourse Analysis.- 7.1 Hierarchy.- 7.2 Tagmeme and Syntagmeme.- 7.3 The Law of Primary Exponence.- 7.4 General Theory of Exponence.- 7.5 Characteristics of the Various Levels.- 7.6 Variety in Nature.- 7.7 Similarities Between Levels.- 7.8 Some Deviant Schematizations.- 7.9 Notional and Surface Structure in a Hierarchical Framework.- 7.10 Surface Structure Meaning.- 7.11 Notional Structure Form.- 7.12 Mapping of Notional Levels Onto Surface Levels.- 7.13 Tagmeme and Syntagmeme in This Setting.- 7.14 Multiple Perspective.- 7.15 A Trimodal Model.- 8 A Concluding Toward Maximum Context.- The Notional and Surface Structure of English Clauses.

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Review

From reviews of the First Edition:
`A comprehensive and cohesive description of text discourse ... provides a challenging and stimulating vehicle for expanding the horizons of readers having a concern for discourse analysis.'
Applied Psycholinguistics
`Because of the richness and breadth of its examples (drawn from many languages), the book should be of interest to those who are seriously interested in the psychology of text and discourse processing.'
Contemporary Psychology

Edition details

• Publisher: Plenum
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 030641273X
• ISBN 13: 9780306412738
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 423