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Record Nr.

UNINA9910367576403321

Autore

Gray Bennison

Titolo

The Grammatical Foundations of Rhetoric : Discourse Analysis / / Bennison Gray

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2019]

©1977

ISBN

3-11-080484-0

Edizione

[Reprint 2019]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 357 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Janua Linguarum. Series Maior ; ; 51

Disciplina

808

Soggetti

Discourse analysis

Rhetoric

Generative grammar

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [348]-353) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION: DIALOG AND DISCOURSE -- PART I. SEMANTIC GRAMMAR -- 1. THE SENTENCE AS DIALOG -- 2. THE MEANING OF ASSERTIONS -- 3. THE STRUCTURE OF ASSERTIONS -- 4. THE USES OF MODIFICATION -- 5. THE PROBLEM OF IMPLICATION -- 6. INTER-ASSERTIONAL RELATIONS -- PART II. GENERATIVE RHETORIC -- 7. GENERATING A COMPOSITION -- 8. INTEGRATING A COMPOSITION -- 9. THE FRAMEWORK OF DIALOG -- 10. DIALOG AS A TOOL OF ANALYSIS -- APPENDIX -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

To celebrate the 270th anniversary of the De Gruyter publishing house, the company is providing permanent open access to 270 selected treasures from the De Gruyter Book Archive. Titles will be made available to anyone, anywhere at any time that might be interested. The DGBA project seeks to digitize the entire backlist of titles published since 1749 to ensure that future generations have digital access to the high-quality primary sources that De Gruyter has published over the centuries.