Grounding in English and Arabic news discourse

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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ISBN: 9027251010 (Eur. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9789027251015 (Eur. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 1556199821 (US : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9781556199820 (US : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9027251010 (Eur. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 1556199821 (US : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9027298947 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9789027298942 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 274 p.) : ill.
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Publisher: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2000.

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General Note:	Multi-User. Enlargement of author's thesis (Ph. D)--University of Amsterdam, 1999.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-270) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
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Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.