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Reporting discourse, tense, and cognition /

Sakita, Tomoko I.

Reporting discourse, tense, and cognition / by Tomoko I. Sakita. - 1st ed. - Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, 2002. - xiii, 290 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-282) and indexes.

Summary of contrasts
Weak vs. strong attitude
Degrees of assuredness in I don't know
Degrees of firmness in negation and affirmation
Degrees of upset in exclamation
Summary of contrasts
Conclusion

Consciousness Flow, Discourse Acts, and Tense
Overview
Discourse organization units
Consciousness flow in discourse
Consciousness flow in narrative dialogues
Consciousness flow in exchanges
Adjacency pair
Three-part exchange
Consciousness flow over a series of remarks
In a single speaker's speech
Over a series of remarks
Consciousness flow in repetition of dialogue-introducers
Pre-posing double dialogue-introducers
Post-posing dialogue-introducers
At restatements
Conclusion

Tense in Indirect Reporting Discourse
Overview
Treatments of tense in grammar
Pragmatic view
Declerck's hypothesis
Tense in discourse
Prevalence of speaker's viewpoint
Avoidance of the past perfect tense
Discourse functional use of the past perfect tense
Reporting clause as dialogue marker
Conclusion

Reporting Discourse Style and Function
Overview
General characterizations of reporting discourse style and function
Theoretical backgrounds
Pragmatic studies

Reporting style and structure
Overview
Preliminary study
Experimental study
Method
Data analysis procedures
Results
Backgrounds of structural influence on style choice
Summary

Reporting function and pattern
Overview
Method
Reporting discourse functions
Evidentiality
Disagreement and persuasion
Response
Foreground and background information
Showing climaxes or punch-lines

Exemplification and demonstration of emotion
Dramatization
Dramatizing imaginary and future events
Dramatizing archetypical events
Summary

Correlations between style and function
Reporting discourse on continuum
Style and function along a continuum.
Conclusion

Conclusion
Summary of chapters
Theoretical implications
Future perspectives
Notes
Transcription Conventions
References
Author Index
Subject Index.

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Grammar, Comparative and general--Indirect discourse.
Grammar, Comparative and general--Tense.
Discourse analysis--Psychological aspects.
Language and languages--Style.

P301.5.I53 / S25 2002

401.41 SAK