Review about Discourse and Information Structure

Discourse and Information Structure GREGORY WARD AND BETTY J. BIRNER 0 Introduction In addition to deciding what to say, the speaker must decide how to say it. the central premise of the study of the relationship between syntax and function of discourse is that the use of the speaker of the particular structural options limited by certain aspects of the context of the speech. Working in discourse has found a certain range of discourse functions served by the individual syntax constructions.1 More recently, in Birner and Ward (1998)...

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Discourse analysis

**Discourse is generally used to designate the forms of representation, codes, conventions and habits of language that produce specific fields of culturally and historically located meanings. Michel Foucault's early writings ('The Order of Discourse', 1971 **Discourse is a conceptual generalization of conversation within each modality and context of communication. **Discourse refers to how we think and communicate about people, things, the social organization of society, and the relationships among and between all three. Discourse typically...

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