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

Book 9 of 9: RLE: Discourse Analysis
 
9781138224650: Focus, Coherence and Emphasis (RLE: Discourse Analysis)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1138224650 ISBN 13: 9781138224650
Publisher: Routledge, 2018

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.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author

Paul Werth

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2018
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1138224650
ISBN 13 
9781138224650
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
308
Editor
Werth Paul

Other Popular Editions of the Same Title

9781138224612: Focus, Coherence and Emphasis (RLE: Discourse Analysis)

Featured Edition

ISBN 10:  1138224618 ISBN 13:  9781138224612
Publisher: Routledge, 2016
Hardcover