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The Grammar of Discourse (Paperback, 2nd ed. 1996. Softcover reprint of the original 2nd ed. 1996)
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The Grammar of Discourse (Paperback, 2nd ed. 1996. Softcover reprint of the original 2nd ed. 1996)
Series: Topics in Language and Linguistics
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The Second Edition of The Grammar of Discourse critically evaluates
and updates Robert E. Longacre's ambitious work dedicated to the
thesis that language is language only in context, and that
context's natural role in the resolution of sentence ambiguities
has been overlooked for too long by linguists. This new edition
advances even further the 'discourse revolution' which Longacre
predicted in the First Edition would come in response to the demand
for greater explanatory power through context. The most cogent
application of this, one which makes the book unique among
linguistics texts, is the author's exhaustive investigation into
the interface of the morphosyntax of a language with its textual
structures. This expanded volume builds upon its predecessor's
major points, with new chapters increasing the coverage of
paragraph and clause structure-the latter being handled in a new
chapter which solves a problem posed in the original edition: how
holistic concerns of structure, especially the recognition of
different strands of information, relate to the constituent
structure of discourse.The insights contained in this chapter
create an opportunity to tie in current discussions of
transitivity, ergativity, the antipassive, agency hierarchy,
order-preserving transformations, and word-order concerns into the
structure of discourse.Other noteworthy features of the Second
Edition include: The integration of information salience, local
dominance, and paragraph type to answer the question 'What makes a
discourse followable ?' -A study of dialogue relations-The
formalization of the interrelations of tagmeme and syntagmeme, and
of the varieties of exponence on the various levels of
hierarchy-The use of an expanded and enriched statement calculus to
better pinpoint logical relations between predications-The use of a
similarly enriched predicate calculus to present case frames-A
stepped diagram presentation of paragraph level analyses.> With
material tested in classes at the University of Texas, Arlington,
this influential work merits serious consideration as a text for
first-year graduate courses in linguistics.
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