Discourse Structure and Anaphora: Written and Conversational English

by Barbara A. Fox

Overview

This thoughtful study, presenting a novel analytical framework, examines the use of anaphora in both written and conversational discourse. In particular, it examines the distribution of pronouns and full noun phrases in three different genres of English, and demonstrates the relationships between the hierarchical structure of discourses and the use of anaphoric phrases within those discourses.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521439909
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	02/11/1993
Series:	Cambridge Studies in Linguistics , #48
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	6.06(w) x 9.06(h) x 0.75(d)

Table of Contents

1. Introduction; 2. Conversation analysis; 3. Anaphora in conversational English; 4. Rhetorical structure analysis; 5. Anaphora in expository written English texts; 6. Anaphora in expository written and conversational English; 7. Conclusions.

Editorial Reviews

"...is a tightly argued, well-documented, innovative reformulation of the theory of anaphora that should have an impact on thinking about anaphora in discourse." Studies in Second Language Learning

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