Reporting discourse, tense, and cognition
智子 﨑田 · Elsevier eBooks · 2002
Summary of contrasts Weak vs. strong attitude Degrees of assuredness in I don't know Degrees of firmness in negation and affirmation Degrees of upset in exclamation Summary of contrasts Conclusion Consciousness Flow, Discourse Acts, and Tense Overview Discourse organization units Consciousness flow in discourse Consciousness flow in narrative dialogues Consciousness flow in exchanges Adjacency pair Three-part exchange Consciousness flow over a series of remarks In a single speaker's speech Over a series of remarks Consciousness flow in repetition of dialogue-introducers Pre-posing double dialogue-introducers Post-posing dialogue-introducers At restatements Conclusion Tense in Indirect Reporting Discourse Overview Treatments of tense in grammar Pragmatic view Declerck's hypothesis Tense in discourse Prevalence of speaker's viewpoint Avoidance of the past perfect tense Discourse functional use of the past perfect tense Reporting clause as dialogue marker Conclusion Reporting Discourse Style and Function Overview General characterizations of reporting discourse style and function Theoretical backgrounds Pragmatic studies Reporting style and structure Overview Preliminary study Experimental study Method Data analysis procedures Results Backgrounds of structural influence on style choice Summary Reporting function and pattern Overview Method Reporting discourse functions Evidentiality Disagreement and persuasion Response Foreground and background information Showing climaxes or punch-lines Exemplification and demonstration of emotion Dramatization Dramatizing imaginary and future events Dramatizing archetypical events Summary Correlations between style and function Reporting discourse on continuum Style and function along a continuum. Conclusion Conclusion Summary of chapters Theoretical implications Future perspectives Notes Transcription Conventions References Author Index Subject Index.