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Grounding in English and Arabic news discourse / Esam N. Khalil.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 82.Publication details: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2000.Description: 1 online resource (x, 274 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789027298942
  • 9027298947
  • 9781556199820
  • 1556199821
  • 9789027251015
  • 9027251010
  • 1282163140
  • 9781282163140
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Grounding in English and Arabic news discourse.DDC classification:
  • 425 21
LOC classification:
  • PE1130.A8 K484 2000eb
Other classification:
  • 17.63
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Contents:
GROUNDING IN ENGLISH AND ARABIC NEWS DISCOURSE; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface; Chapter 1. Overview; Chapter 2. The Foreground-Background Structure as a Textual Phenomenon; Chapter 3. Schematic Manifestations of Text-Level Grounding; Chapter 4. Syntactic Manifestations of Text-Level Grounding; Chapter 5. Initial Position Marking of Grounding: The Case of Arabic News; Chapter 6. Sentence-Initial Markers; Chapter 7. Discussion; Appendix I: Glossary of Notions Used in the Study; Appendix II: Transliteration System; References; Index.
Summary: Grounding in English and Arabic News Discourse explores the discourse notion of grounding (viz. the foreground-background structure), and examines it in the various structures that occur in short news texts. A text-level approach to grounding and the differentiation between several core concepts relating to the various textual and non-textual structures, distinguish the book from other approaches in the field. A corpus-based analysis focuses on sentence-initial expressions and examines the grounding-signalling function of several markers in both English and Arabic. The analysis captures constra.
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Enlargement of author's thesis (Ph. D)--University of Amsterdam, 1999.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-270) and index.

GROUNDING IN ENGLISH AND ARABIC NEWS DISCOURSE; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface; Chapter 1. Overview; Chapter 2. The Foreground-Background Structure as a Textual Phenomenon; Chapter 3. Schematic Manifestations of Text-Level Grounding; Chapter 4. Syntactic Manifestations of Text-Level Grounding; Chapter 5. Initial Position Marking of Grounding: The Case of Arabic News; Chapter 6. Sentence-Initial Markers; Chapter 7. Discussion; Appendix I: Glossary of Notions Used in the Study; Appendix II: Transliteration System; References; Index.

Grounding in English and Arabic News Discourse explores the discourse notion of grounding (viz. the foreground-background structure), and examines it in the various structures that occur in short news texts. A text-level approach to grounding and the differentiation between several core concepts relating to the various textual and non-textual structures, distinguish the book from other approaches in the field. A corpus-based analysis focuses on sentence-initial expressions and examines the grounding-signalling function of several markers in both English and Arabic. The analysis captures constra.

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