Discourse Structure and Anaphora

Written and Conversational English

By: Barbara A. Fox

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Paperback | 12 April 1993

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Barbara Fox''s thoughtful study examines the use of anaphora in written and spoken discourse. Any treatment of anaphora must consider the hierarchical structure of its source text-types. Texts may be produced and heard or read linearly, but they are designed and understood hierarchically. Discourse structure and anaphora goes beyond the information processing concerns of cognitive science to assess the critical role played in all text-types by social, interactional and affective factors. It also takes into consideration the fact that texts are organised by socially accepted conventions. Using conversation analysis and rhetorical structure analysis. Discourse structure and anaphora looks at the distribution of pronouns and full noun phrases in three different genres of English. The data are taken from naturally occurring face-to-face and telephone conversations, small newspaper and magazine articles, and segments of a psychoanalytic biography. It is a subtle and detailed investigation which provides many insights into the informational and interactional aspects of discourse and the relationships between discourse and grammar.

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"...is a tightly argued, well-documented, innovative reformulation of the theory of anaphora that should have an impact on thinking about anaphora in discourse." Studies in Second Language Learning

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Preface	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Major themes of the study	p. 1
Organization	p. 4
Conversational analysis	p. 6
Notation conventions	p. 6
The turn-taking system	p. 10
The structural organization of conversation	p. 12
Conclusion	p. 14
Anaphora in conversational English	p. 16
Introduction	p. 16
The data	p. 17
The basic pattern of anaphora	p. 18
Anaphora in the environment of different-gender referents	p. 45
Anaphora in the environment of same-gender referents	p. 48
Non-structural factors in anphora	p. 62
Summary	p. 75
Rhetorical structure analysis	p. 77
Rhetorical structure concepts	p. 78
Validity in the analysis	p. 91
Summary	p. 92
Anaphora in expository written English texts	p. 93
Introduction	p. 93
Anaphora in some expository written English texts	p. 94
Rhetorical structure breaks in anaphora	p. 111
Anaphora in the environment of different-gender referents	p. 118
Anaphora in the environment of same-gender referents	p. 123
Non-structural factors	p. 132
Summary	p. 135
Anaphora in expository written and conversational English	p. 137
Introduction	p. 137
Theories of the differences between spoken and written language	p. 137
The basic patterns	p. 139
Demarcating structural units	p. 143
Different-gender referents and anaphora	p. 144
Same-gender referents and anaphora	p. 147
Non-structural factors in anaphora	p. 148
Conclusions	p. 152
Localness	p. 152
Discourse structures	p. 154
Conclusion	p. 155
Notes	p. 156
References	p. 164
Author index	p. 169
Subject index	p. 171
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