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Discourse Interpretation: Approaches and Applications provides new insights into the complex area of discourse interpretation in a wide range of discourse types and genres. The authors adopt a variety of approaches to the representation and interpretation of meaning in discourse to share the understanding that discourse interpretation is a dynamic construct constantly open to reinterpretation in the light of the intentions and purposes of in particular social, historical and situational conte...

Discourse analysis. --- Discourse grammar --- Text grammar --- Semantics --- Semiotics

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Discourse analysis --- Español --- Análisis del discurso. --- Discourse grammar --- Text grammar --- Semantics --- Semiotics

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This volume investigates Left Dislocation (LD) in the recent history of English, especially in the Late Modern English period, from the syntactic, semantic, informational and discourse-functional perspectives. Chapter 1 provides a workable definition of LD. A distinction is made between several different LD configurations within a gradient including a prototype and less central types by taking into account grammatical and compositional features. Chapter 2 reconsiders the semantic, informational and syntactic interpretations of the theme-topic interface and explores the role of LD as far as these three views are concerned. The informational and cognitive-functional features of left-dislocates are analysed as a set of quantifiable features, namely topicality (or topic persistence), information status and syntactic distributional features. Chapter 3 deals with the multifunctional character of LD at the discourse level. The main processing and interactive functions of LD are further specified by means of a typology of four major functions and four minor functions that relies on contextual features such as referentiality (Introductory or Forefronting), the semantic relationship between the dislocate and the copy (Narrowing or Contrastive), on general interactional circumstances (Acknowledge or Summarising) or on the speaker's attitude (Predicative or Correction).

English language --- Functional discourse grammar --- Discourse analysis --- Grammar, Generative --- Anglais (langue) --- Fonctionnalisme (linguistique) --- Functional discourse grammar. --- Analyse du discours --- Grammaire générative --- Discourse analysis. --- Grammar, Generative. --- Analyse du discours. --- Grammaire générative. --- English language - Discourse analysis --- English language - Grammar, Generative

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This volume looks at the growing interest of different specialists in the problems associated with political discourse, in general, and parliamentary discourse, as one of its major sub-genres, in particular. Its main goal is to offer a deeper understanding of the diversity of parliamentary practices across space and time. The papers aim to highlight the role played by local social and historical factors, ideologies, collective mentalities, and social psychology in building up culture-specific...

Communication in politics --- Discourse analysis --- Discourse grammar --- Text grammar --- Semantics --- Semiotics --- Political communication --- Political science --- Political aspects

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The goal of this paper is to compare appositive relative clauses (henceforth ARCs) to other structures that convey the same information, in order to determine the morphosyntactic, semantic and above all pragmatic factors conditioning the choice of structure. Alternatives to ARCs examined here include sentential parentheticals, juxtaposed/coordinated independent clauses, adverbials or noun modifiers which, along with ARCs, can be considered competing allostructures representing the different possible syntactic realizations of the same informational, logico-semantic content. Setting register-rel

Constraints (Linguistics) --- Discourse analysis --- Discourse grammar --- Text grammar --- Semantics --- Semiotics --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Linguistic analysis (Linguistics) --- Pragmatics --- Discourse analysis.