Topic Continuity in Discourse: A Quantitative Cross-Language Study

by Talmy Givón

Book Overview

The functional notion of "topic" or "topicality" has suffered, traditionally, from two distinct drawbacks. First, it has remained largely ill defined or intuitively defined. And second, quite often... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9027228671
• ISBN13: 9789027228673
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 492 Pages