Discourse and word order /

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Author / Creator:Yokoyama, Olga Tsuneko.
Imprint:Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1986.
Description:1 online resource (x, 361 pages) : illustrations.
Language:English
Series:Pragmatics & beyond companion series ; 6
Pragmatics & beyond companion series ; 6.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11122288
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ISBN:9789027278890
902727889X
9781556190124
1556190123
9027250073
9789027250070
1556190123
9789027250070
1283358891
9781283358897
9786613358899
6613358894
Notes:Includes bibliography and indexes.
English.
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.
Other form:Print version: Yokoyama, Olga Tsuneko. Discourse and word order. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1986