Focus, Coherence and Emphasis (RLE: Discourse Analysis) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138224618 ISBN 13: 9781138224612

Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

First published in 1984, this book examines a number of questions on the boundary of competence and performance ― whose solutions have implications for linguistic theory in general. In particular, the form of grammatical statements, the relationship between various rules of grammar, the interaction between sentence in a sequence, and the inferences to be drawn from linguistic behaviour to linguistic knowledge. The author argues that many grammatical processes, inadequately handled by conventional sentence-grammars, require a text grammar in which the basic constitutive processes of information and deixis can be specified. They ago further to investigate the novel hypothesis that emphatic structure provides a crucial condition for the application of transformational rules, paying particular attention to the ‘movement-rules’ using mostly data culled from actual usage.

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Paul Werth

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138224618
• ISBN 13: 9781138224612
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 308
• Editor: Werth Paul