Discourse Topics

Discourse Topics
Author: Richard Watson Todd
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2016-11-24
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027266220


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Discourse topics are a frequently mentioned but rarely operationalised concept in linguistics. Taking a text linguistic approach and defining discourse topics as clusterings of concepts, this book examines and compares methods for investigating topic boundaries, topic identification and topic development. The first book to be devoted to topics in extended discourse, Discourse Topics examines topics in several genres and generates new insights into the nature of discourse topics that challenge the status quo. It is essential reading for researchers in linguistics, discourse analysis, natural language processing and psychology whose work concerns topics.


Discourse Topics
Language: en
Pages: 332
Authors: Richard Watson Todd
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-11-24 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Discourse topics are a frequently mentioned but rarely operationalised concept in linguistics. Taking a text linguistic approach and defining discourse topics a
Topic Continuity in Discourse
Language: en
Pages: 498
Authors: T. Givón
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 1983-01-01 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

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The functional notion of “topic” or “topicality” has suffered, traditionally, from two distinct drawbacks. First, it has remained largely ill defined or
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Language: en
Pages: 374
Authors: Robert E. Longacre
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-11-21 - Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

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In that The Anatomy of Speech Notions (1976) was the precursor to The Grammar of Discourse (1983), this revision embodies a third "edition" of some of the mater
Topic Continuity in Discourse
Language: en
Pages: 499
Authors: Talmy Givón
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 1983-01-01 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

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The functional notion of “topic” or “topicality” has suffered, traditionally, from two distinct drawbacks. First, it has remained largely ill defined or int
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Language: en
Pages: 322
Authors: Wolfram Bublitz
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 1988-01-01 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

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