Approaches to Cognition through Text and Discourse /

Approaches to Cognition through Text and Discourse / / ed. by Tuija Virtanen.

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The purpose of this book is to explore the overlapping area of study that discourse linguists and cognitive linguists are interested in. In doing so, the volume contributes to bridging the gap between these two large groups of linguists who share an interest in discourse processing but approach the...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
MitwirkendeR:
Beaugrande, Robert de,
Björklund, Martina,
Bülow-Møller, Anne Marie,
Fernandez-Vest, M. M. Jocelyne,
Harder, Peter,
Lundquist, Lita,
Siewierska, Anna,
Virtanen, Tuija,
Wårvik, Brita,
HerausgeberIn:
Virtanen, Tuija,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]
©2004
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 147
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Physical Description:1 online resource (214 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • I-VIII
  • Chapter 1. Text, discourse and cognition: An introduction
  • Chapter 2. Language, discourse, and cognition: Retrospects and prospects
  • Chapter 3. On the discourse basis of person agreement
  • Chapter 4. The information structure of bilingual meaning: A constructivist approach to Californian Finnish conversation
  • Chapter 5. Point of departure: Cognitive aspects of sentence-initial adverbials
  • Chapter 6. What is foregrounded in narratives? Hypotheses for the cognitive basis of foregrounding
  • Chapter 7. From legal knowledge to legal discourse – and back again
  • Chapter 8. Conditionals: Your space or mine?
  • Chapter 9. Communicative fragments and the interpretation of discourse
  • Chapter 10. Drawing the line: A contested conceptual model in Danish ‘child care talk’
  • Index

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