The Thread of Discourse

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- 1. Why discourse study? -- 2. Discourse so far -- 3. Events and participants in discourse -- 4. Non-events in discourse -- 5. The speaker and hearer in discourse -- 6. Kinds of information in discourse -- 7. Constituency in discourse -- 8. Semantic role structure -- 9. Semantic derivation -- 10. Other relationships among predicates -- 11. The arguments of propositions -- 12. Referential indices -- 13. The grammar of semantic productions -- 14. Rhetorical structure -- 15. Modality -- 16. Discourse semantics and the surface hierarchy -- 17. Linear organization -- 18. Participant orientation -- 19. Cohesion -- 20. Reference -- 21. Staging -- 22. Topicalization -- 23. Variability -- 24. Postsemantic shaping -- Appendix. Thematic linkage in Natnbiquara narrative / Kroeker, Menno H. -- Bibliography -- Index