Grounding in English and Arabic news discourse /

Grounding in English and Arabic news discourse /

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Bibliographic Details
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
Subject:	English language -- Grammar, Comparative -- Arabic. Arabic language -- Grammar, Comparative -- English. English language -- Discourse analysis. Arabic language -- Discourse analysis. Journalism -- Language. Arabic language -- Discourse analysis. Arabic language -- Grammar, Comparative -- English. English language -- Discourse analysis. English language -- Grammar, Comparative -- Arabic. Journalism -- Language.
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.

Table of Contents:

-1. Prelim pages
0. Table of contents
1. Preface
2. 1. Overview
3. 2. The Foreground-Background Structure as a Textual Phenomenon
4. 3. Schematic Manifestations of Text-Level Grounding
5. 4. Syntactic Manifestations of Text-Level Grounding
6. 5. Initial Position Marking of Grounding: The Case of Arabic News
7. 6. Sentence-Initial Markers
8. 7. Discussion
9. Appendix I Glossary of Notions Used in the Study
10. Appendix II Transliteration System
11. References
12. Index