Grounding in English and Arabic News Discourse
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| Title: | Grounding in English and Arabic News Discourse |
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| Description: | 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. |
| Authors: | Khalil, Esam N. |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Arabic language--Discourse analysis, Journalism--Language, English language--Discourse analysis, English language--Grammar, Comparative--Arabic, Arabic language--Grammar, Comparative--English |
| Categories: | LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | 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. |
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| ISBN: | 9789027251015 9789027298942 |
