Tomlin Russell S. (ed.) Coherence and grounding in discourse

Amsterdam - Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1987. — 520 p. — (Typological Studies in Language, 11).This volume seeks to expand our understanding of the relation holding between discourse relations, cognitive units, and linguistic coding. The twenty contributions in this collection explore one or more of the following themes: How point of view, or the salience of information in discourse, affects the organizational coherence of text and discourse; the concept of cognitive and linguistic event and how events are reflected in text and discourse organization; the nature of linguistic coding of events and other kinds of significant information; and the cognitive bases or cognitive correlates of the linguistic organization of discourse.Narrative connectives in Supyire
Robert Carlson
Cognitive constraints on information flow
Wallace Chafe
Transitivity in grammar and cognition
Scott DeLancey
Actions and procedural directions
Peter Dixon
Pragmatic functions of word order in Sesotho acquisition
Katherine Demuth
Psycholinguistic evidence for foregrounding and backgrounding
Mary S. Erbaugh
The grammatical marking of theme in oral Polish narrative
Vanessa Flashner
Anaphora in popular written English narratives
Barbara A. Fox
Beyond foreground and background
T. Givon
The use of pitch phenomena in the structuring of stories
Lorraine E. Kumpf
On the status of SVO sentences in French discourse
Knud Lambrecht
On the role of conditionals in Godie procedural discourse
Lynell Marchese
Is basic word order universal?
Marianne Mithun
Encoding events in Kalam and English: different logics for reporting experience
Andrew Pawley
Word order in intransitive clauses in High and Low Malay of the late 19th century
Ellen Rafferty
The functional distribution of preposed and postposed 'if and 'when' clauses in written discourse
Violeta Ramsey
"Vividness" and "narrative events" in Japanese conversational narratives
Polly E. Szatrowski
"Subordination" and narrative event structure
Sandra A. Thompson
Linguistic reflections of cognitive events
Russell S. Tomlin
Cross-clause relations and temporal sequence in narrative and beyond
Benji Wald