Coherence and Grounding in Discourse: Outcome of a Symposium, Eugene, Oregon, June 1984 (Typological Studies in Language,)

This volume seeks to expand our understanding of the relation holding between discourse relations, cognitive units, and linguistic coding. The twenty contributions in this collection explore one or more of the following themes: How point of view, or the salience of information in discourse, affects the organizational coherence of text and discourse; the concept of cognitive and linguistic __event__ and how events are reflected in text and discourse organization; the nature of linguistic coding of events and other kinds of significant information; and the cognitive bases or cognitive correlates of the linguistic organization of discourse. Narrative Connectives In Sùpyìré / Robert Carlson -- Cognitive Constraints On Information Flow / Wallace Chafe -- Transitivity In Grammar And Cognition / Scott Delancey -- Actions And Procedural Directions / Peter Dixon -- Pragmatic Functions Of Word Order In Sesotho Acquisition / Katherine Demuth -- Psycholinguistic Evidence For Foregrounding And Backgrounding / Mary S. Erbaugh -- The Grammatical Marking Of Theme In Oral Polish Narrative / Vanessa Flashner -- Anaphora In Popular Written English Narratives / Barbara A. Fox -- Beyond Foreground And Background / T. Givón -- The Use Of Pitch Phenomena In The Structuring Of Stories / Lorraine E. Kumpf -- On The Status Of Svo Sentences In French Discourse / Knud Lambrecht -- On The Role Of Conditionals In Godié Procedural Discourse / Lynell Marchese -- Is Basic Word Order Universal? / Marianne Mithun -- Encoding Events In Kalam And English : Different Logics For Reporting Experience / Andrew Pawley -- Word Order In Intransitive Clauses In High And Low Malay Of The Late 19th Century / Ellen Rafferty -- The Functional Distribution Of Preposed And Postposed 'if' And 'when' Clauses In Written Discourse / Violeta Ramsey -- Vividness And Narrative Events In Japanese Conversational Narratives / Polly E. Szatrowski -- Subordination And Narrative Event Structure / Sandra A. Thompson -- Linguistic Reflections Of Cognitive Events / Russell S. Tomlin -- Cross-clause Relations And Temporal Sequence In Narrative And Beyond / Benji Wald. Edited By Russell S. Tomlin. Includes Bibliographies. Recoge en 20 artículos: Cómo afecta el punto de vista a la coherencia del texto y del discurso; Concepto de sucesos cognitivos y lingüísticos y su reflejo en la organización del texto y del discurso; Naturaleza del código lingüístico de los sucesos y otras clases de información importante; Las bases cognitivas de la orgnización lingüística del discurso Addresses the topics of cognitive constraints on information flow and syntax, the identification and linguistic coding of events and actions, and the pragmatic functions of subordination and word order. The contributions are empirical, drawing on extensive data from various sources.