Reporting discourse, tense, and cognition /

Reporting discourse, tense, and cognition / / by Tomoko I. Sakita.

Reporting discourse has attracted rigorous analyses in linguistics, literary theory, cognitive psychology, sociology and ethnomethodology. This book provides analyses of controversial topics in reporting discourse like tense alternation, reporting styles, patterns and functions. After critically exa...

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Sakita, Tomoko I.,
Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Elsevier,, [2002]
©2002
Year of Publication:2002
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (305 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Summary of contrasts
  • Weak vs. strong attitude
  • Degrees of assuredness in I don't know
  • Degrees of firmness in negation and affirmation
  • Degrees of upset in exclamation
  • Summary of contrasts
  • Conclusion
  • Consciousness Flow, Discourse Acts, and Tense
  • Overview
  • Discourse organization units
  • Consciousness flow in discourse
  • Consciousness flow in narrative dialogues
  • Consciousness flow in exchanges
  • Adjacency pair
  • Three-part exchange
  • Consciousness flow over a series of remarks
  • In a single speaker's speech
  • Over a series of remarks
  • Consciousness flow in repetition of dialogue-introducers
  • Pre-posing double dialogue-introducers
  • Post-posing dialogue-introducers
  • At restatements
  • Conclusion
  • Tense in Indirect Reporting Discourse
  • Overview
  • Treatments of tense in grammar
  • Pragmatic view
  • Declerck's hypothesis
  • Tense in discourse
  • Prevalence of speaker's viewpoint
  • Avoidance of the past perfect tense
  • Discourse functional use of the past perfect tense
  • Reporting clause as dialogue marker
  • Conclusion
  • Reporting Discourse Style and Function
  • Overview
  • General characterizations of reporting discourse style and function
  • Theoretical backgrounds
  • Pragmatic studies
  • Reporting style and structure
  • Overview
  • Preliminary study
  • Experimental study
  • Method
  • Data analysis procedures
  • Results
  • Backgrounds of structural influence on style choice
  • Summary
  • Reporting function and pattern
  • Overview
  • Method
  • Reporting discourse functions
  • Evidentiality
  • Disagreement and persuasion
  • Response
  • Foreground and background information
  • Showing climaxes or punch-lines
  • Exemplification and demonstration of emotion
  • Dramatization
  • Dramatizing imaginary and future events
  • Dramatizing archetypical events
  • Summary
  • Correlations between style and function
  • Reporting discourse on continuum
  • Style and function along a continuum.
  • Conclusion
  • Conclusion
  • Summary of chapters
  • Theoretical implications
  • Future perspectives
  • Notes
  • Transcription Conventions
  • References
  • Author Index
  • Subject Index.

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