Third person references : forms and functions in two spoken genres of Spanish / Jenny Dumont.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Intro -- Third Person References -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Discourse Analysis -- 1.2. Genre -- 1.3. The present study -- 2. Research questions -- 2.1. Research questions -- 2.2. Grammar and competing motivations -- 2.3. Information flow -- 2.3.1 Activation status -- 2.3.2 Discourse Referentiality -- 2.3.3 Identifiability -- 2.3.4 Specificity -- 2.4. Genre differences -- 2.5. Summary of research questions pertinent to information flow -- 2.6. Other factors influencing the linguistic coding of third person -- 2.7. Summary -- 3. Data -- 3.1. Data collection -- 3.2. Pear Film Narratives -- 3.3. Spontaneous conversations -- 3.4. Transcription method -- 4. Coding -- 4.1. Syntactic and semantic factors -- 4.1.1 NP realization -- 4.1.2 Modification -- 4.1.3 Syntactic role -- 4.1.4 Semantic class of verb -- 4.1.5 Summary -- 4.2. Factors related to information flow -- 4.2.1 Activation State -- 4.2.2 Specificity -- 4.2.3 Distance from previous mention -- 4.2.4 Realization of previous mention of the referent -- 4.2.5 Discourse referentiality -- 4.2.6 Summary of factors related to information flow -- 5. Discourse referentiality -- 5.1. Factors related to discourse referentiality -- 5.1.1 Persistence -- 5.1.2 NP Realization -- 5.1.3 Modification -- 5.1.4 Specificity -- 5.1.5 Grammatical role -- 5.2. Summary of grammatical manifestations of discourse referentiality -- 6. Linguistic patterning of referents -- 6.1 Formal characteristics of discourse referents -- 6.1.1 Discourse referentiality and realization -- 6.1.1.1 New referents and realization -- 6.1.1.2 Given referents and realization -- 6.1.2 Discourse referential NPs and modification -- 6.1.2.1 New referents and modification -- 6.1.2.2 Given full NPs and modification -- 6.1.3 Activation status and syntactic role.

6.1.3.1 New referents and syntactic role -- 6.1.3.2 Given referents and syntactic role -- 6.1.4 Summary of new referents -- 6.1.5 Summary of given referents -- 6.2 Additional considerations for referents -- 6.2.1 New referents and semantic class of verb -- 6.2.2 Other types of "given" referents -- 6.3 Summary -- 7. Linguistic patterns of non-referential expressions -- 7.1 Discourse non-referential forms in core roles -- 7.2 Objects of prepositions -- 7.3 Predicate nominals -- 7.4 Adverbials -- 7.5 Vocatives -- 7.6 Summary of non-referential forms -- 8. Genre differences -- 8.1 Distribution of referential NPs -- 8.2 Preferred argument structure -- 8.3 Transitivity across genres -- 8.4 Summary -- 9. Conclusions -- 9.1. Summary of major findings -- 9.1.1 Grammar and competing motivations -- 9.1.2 Referentiality -- 9.1.3 Genre -- 9.2. Avenues of future research -- References -- Appendix -- Index.

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