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Reporting discourse, tense, and cognition / by Tomoko I. Sakita.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, 2002.Edition: 1st edDescription: xiii, 290 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 008044041X (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 401.41 SAK 21
LOC classification:
  • P301.5.I53 S25 2002
Contents:
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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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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