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ISBN: | 9789027278890 902727889X 9781556190124 1556190123 9027250073 9789027250070 1556190123 9789027250070 1283358891 9781283358897 9786613358899 6613358894
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Notes: | Includes bibliography and indexes. English.
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Summary: | Integrating various aspects of human communication traditionally treated in a number of separate disciplines, Olga T. Yokoyama develops a universal model of the smallest unit of informational discourse, and uncovers the regularities that govern the intentional verbal transfer of knowledge from one interlocutor to another. The author then places these processes within a new framework of Communicational Competence, which legitimizes certain nebulous but important linguistic phenomena hitherto caught in a noman's land between the formal and functional approaches to language. Russian word order, a.
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Other form: | Print version: Yokoyama, Olga Tsuneko. Discourse and word order. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1986
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