Topic Continuity in Discourse
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Topic Continuity in Discourse—subtitled A Quantitative Cross Language Study—is a book edited by Talmy Givón, with contributions by himself and other experts in various languages. It is part of the series Typological Studies in Language, a supplement series to the academic journal Studies in Language. It was published by John Benjamins in 1983. The book presents a heirarchy of natural language (syntactic) coding of topic accessibility (loosely, participant prominence).[1]
See also
- Cognitive science
- Context
- Cotext
- Human universals
- Pragmatics
- Psycholinguistics
- Sociolinguistics
- Universal Grammar
Notes and references
- ^ Fischer (2006)
Bibliography
- Givón, Talmy. Topic Continuity in Discourse: A Quantitative Cross Language Study. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1983.
External links
- Topic Continuity in Discourse — overview of book provided by publisher