Discourse Features of Ten Languages of West-Central Africa - Couverture souple

 
9780883126196: Discourse Features of Ten Languages of West-Central Africa
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0883126192 ISBN 13 : 9780883126196
Editeur : Sil International, Global Publishing, 1995

Synopsis

Presents 12 papers on coherence, participant reference, and Relevance Theory in Niger-Congo and Chadic languages of Cameroon. The papers are organized into three sections to explain the linguistic features of Niger-Congo and Chadic languages of Cameroon whose meaning can only be explained by taking into account domains larger than the sentence. Folk tales and other narratives are used to illustrate discourse features of 10 languages from Cameroon, Chad, Nigeria, and Zaïre. The first section concentrates on how coherence is maintained in a text when the author introduces a local discontinuity. The second section identifies factors which affect the amount of encoding used as a speaker refers to participants throughout a discourse. The third section presents data that applies insights from Relevance Theory. Describes markers of prominence and backgrounding.

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Éditeur
Sil International, Global Publishing
Date d'édition
1995
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0883126192
ISBN 13 
9780883126196
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
252
Éditeur
Levinsohn Stephen H
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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