Grounding in English and Arabic news discourse /

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Author / Creator:Khalil, Esam N.
Imprint:Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2000.
Description:x, 274 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:Pragmatics & beyond new ser. 82
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4364219
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ISBN:1556199821
9027251010 (Eur.)
Notes:Enlargement of author's thesis (Ph. D)--University of Amsterdam, 1999.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-270) and index.

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505 0 0 |g 1.  |t Overview --  |g 1.1.  |t The Scope of the Study --  |g 1.2.  |t Goal and Data --  |g 1.3.  |t Earlier Work on Grounding --  |g 1.4.  |t Critique of Earlier Work --  |g 1.4.1.  |t The Contribution of the Present Study --  |g 1.5.  |t Media Discourse --  |g 1.5.1.  |t The Short News Item --  |g 2.  |t The Foreground-Background Structure as a Textual Phenomenon --  |g 2.1.  |t The Nature of the Phenomenon --  |g 2.1.1.  |t Levels of Textualization --  |g 2.2.  |t Coherence Phenomenon vs. Grounding Phenomenon --  |g 2.2.1.  |t Propositional Coherence --  |g 2.2.2.  |t Discourse Grounding --  |g 2.3.  |t The FG-BG Gradation --  |g 2.3.1.  |t Criteria for Grounding Value Assignment in News Texts --  |g 2.3.2.  |t Constraints on Grounding --  |g 3.  |t Schematic Manifestations of Text-Level Grounding --  |g 3.1.  |t Salience and Prominence --  |g 3.2.  |t Communicative Strategy of Signaling Grounding --  |g 3.2.1.  |t Linearity --  |g 3.2.2.  |t Staging: News Upstage and News Downstage --  |g 3.3.  |t Short News Items Schemata --  |g 3.3.1.  |t Schematic Salience Mapping Rules --  |g 3.4.  |t Some Manifestations of News Schematic Salience --  |g 4.  |t Syntactic Manifestations of Text-Level Grounding --  |g 4.1.  |t Text-Level Surface Structure Features of Grounding --  |g 4.1.1.  |t The Textual Role of Sentence Structure in Signaling the FG-BG Structure --  |g 4.1.2.  |t The Importance of Sentence-Initial Position --  |g 4.1.3.  |t Prominence in Sentence and Text --  |g 4.2.  |t Initial Position and Types of Staging --  |g 4.3.  |t Entities in Initial Position and Unsignaled Grounding Structure --  |g 4.4.  |t The Role of Sentence-Initial Markers in Signaling Background across Sentence-Boundaries --  |g 4.4.1.  |t Initial Markers and Difference in Grounding Value --  |g 4.4.2.  |t Signaling Grounding Relation --  |g 4.5.  |t Types of Markers --  |g 4.5.1.  |t Participles --  |g 4.5.2.  |t Adverbials --  |g 4.6.  |t Signaling Remote Background --  |g 5.  |t Initial Position Marking of Grounding: The Case of Arabic News --  |g 5.1.  |t Goal, Material and Method --  |g 5.2.  |t The Arabic Language --  |g 5.3.  |t The Observed Phenomenon in Arabic News Texts --  |g 5.3.1.  |t Extent of the Phenomenon --  |g 5.3.2.  |t Significance of the Phenomenon --  |g 5.4.  |t Why Arabic News Texts Fail --  |g 5.4.1.  |t Initial Connectivity Patterns: Differences from English News Texts --  |g 5.4.2.  |t Grounding Structure Problem: Background Realized as Foreground --  |g 5.4.3.  |t Sentence-Initial Markers and Communicative Strategy: De-Foregrounding --  |g 5.5.  |t News and Editorials: Typological Differences and Sentence-Initial Position --  |g 6.  |t Sentence-Initial Markers --  |g 6.1.  |t Types of Sentence-Initial Markers --  |g 6.1.1.  |t Qad --  |g 6.1.2.  |t Kana qad --  |g 6.1.3.  |t Mimma yudkaru anna --  |g 6.1.4.  |t Fa-(qad) --  |g 6.1.5.  |t Min nahiyatin/jihatin uxra --  |g 6.1.6.  |t Min al-ma'rufi anna --  |g 6.1.7.  |t Fi + spatio/temporal entity --  |g 6.1.8.  |t Fi nafsi al-waqt --  |g 6.2.  |t Constraints on the Interchangeability of Markers: Recasting Options --  |g 6.2.1.  |t Neutralizing an Initial Marker in English --  |g 7.  |t Discussion --  |g App. I.  |t Glossary of Notions Used in the Study --  |g App. II.  |t Transliteration System. 
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