| Description |
1 online resource (x, 274 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Pragmatics & beyond,
0922-842X ;
new ser. 82
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Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 82.
0922-842X
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| Note |
Enlargement of author's thesis (Ph. D)--University of Amsterdam, 1999. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-270) and index. |
| Contents |
GROUNDING IN ENGLISH AND ARABIC NEWS DISCOURSE; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface; Chapter 1. Overview; Chapter 2. The Foreground-Background Structure as a Textual Phenomenon; Chapter 3. Schematic Manifestations of Text-Level Grounding; Chapter 4. Syntactic Manifestations of Text-Level Grounding; Chapter 5. Initial Position Marking of Grounding: The Case of Arabic News; Chapter 6. Sentence-Initial Markers; Chapter 7. Discussion; Appendix I: Glossary of Notions Used in the Study; Appendix II: Transliteration System; References; Index. |
| Summary |
Grounding in English and Arabic News Discourse explores the discourse notion of grounding (viz. the foreground-background structure), and examines it in the various structures that occur in short news texts. A text-level approach to grounding and the differentiation between several core concepts relating to the various textual and non-textual structures, distinguish the book from other approaches in the field. A corpus-based analysis focuses on sentence-initial expressions and examines the grounding-signalling function of several markers in both English and Arabic. The analysis captures constra. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English language -- Grammar, Comparative -- Arabic.
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English language -- Grammar, Comparative -- Arabic. |
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English language -- Grammar, Comparative. |
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Arabic language -- Grammar, Comparative -- English.
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Arabic language -- Grammar, Comparative -- English. |
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Arabic language. |
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English language -- Discourse analysis.
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English language -- Discourse analysis. |
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Arabic language -- Discourse analysis.
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Arabic language -- Discourse analysis. |
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Journalism -- Language.
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Journalism -- Language. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Proefschriften (vorm)
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Khalil, Esam N. Grounding in English and Arabic news discourse. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2000 (DLC) 00059870 |
| ISBN |
9789027298942 (electronic book) |
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9027298947 (electronic book) |
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9781556199820 (US ; alkaline paper) |
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1556199821 (US ; alkaline paper) |
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9789027251015 (Eur. ; alkaline paper) |
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9027251010 (Eur. ; alkaline paper) |
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1282163140 |
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9781282163140 |
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1556199821 (US ; alkaline paper) |
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9027251010 (Eur. ; alkaline paper) |
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