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The Grammar of Discourse

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  • © 1996

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Authors:
  1. Robert E. Longacre

    1. Summer Institute of Linguistics, Dallas, USA
      University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, USA

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Part of the book series: Topics in Language and Linguistics (TLLI)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction

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    Pages 1-6

  3. Monologue Discourse

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    Pages 7-31

  4. Monologue Discourse

    • Robert E. Longacre
    Pages 33-50

  5. Combinations of Predications

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    Pages 51-100

  6. Intersentential Relations

    • Robert E. Longacre
    Pages 101-122

  7. Repartee

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    Pages 123-151

  8. Cases or Roles

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    Pages 153-166

  9. Case Frames

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    Pages 167-218

  10. Surface Structure of Clauses

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    Pages 219-268

  11. A Framework for Discourse Analysis

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    Pages 269-317

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 319-362
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About this book

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 material that is found here. The original intent of the 1976 volume was to construct a hierarchical arrangement of notional categories, which find surface realization in the grammatical constructions of the various languages of the world. The idea was to marshal the categories that every analyst-regardless of theoretical bent-had to take account of as cognitive entities. The volume began with a couple of chapters on what was then popularly known as "case grammar," then expanded upward and downward to include other notional categories on other levels. Chapters on dis­ course, monologue, and dialogue were buried in the center of the volume. In the 1983 volume, the chapters on monologue and dialogue discourse were moved to the fore of the book and the chapters on case grammar were made less prominent; the volume was then renamed The Grammar of Discourse. The current revision features more clearly than its predecessors the intersection of discourse and pragmatic concerns with grammatical structures on various levels. It retains and expands much of the former material but includes new material reflecting current advances in such topics as salience clines for discourse, rhetorical relations, paragraph structures, transitivity, ergativity, agency hierarchy, and word­ order typologies.

Reviews

From reviews of the First Edition:
`A comprehensive and cohesive description of text discourse ... provides a challenging and stimulating vehicle for expanding the horizons of readers having a concern for discourse analysis.'
Applied Psycholinguistics
`Because of the richness and breadth of its examples (drawn from many languages), the book should be of interest to those who are seriously interested in the psychology of text and discourse processing.'
Contemporary Psychology

Authors and Affiliations

  • Summer Institute of Linguistics, Dallas, USA

    Robert E. Longacre

  • University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, USA

    Robert E. Longacre

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Grammar of Discourse

  • Authors: Robert E. Longacre

  • Series Title: Topics in Language and Linguistics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0162-0

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1996

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-45235-2Published: 30 June 1996

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-0164-4Published: 07 June 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-0162-0Published: 21 November 2013

  • Edition Number: 2

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 362

  • Topics: Cognitive Psychology, Language and Literature

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