Double subjects and verbal demonstrations  

Oleh:

Salmon, William

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Pragmatics: An Interdiciplinary Journal of Language Studies vol. 42 no. 12 (Dec. 2010), page 3431–3443.
Topik: Double-subject Dislocation Demonstrative Kaplan Micro-rhetoric
Fulltext: Salmon_W.pdf (184.45KB)

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This paper explores the role of a contemporary instance of anacolutha—what I refer to as a double-subject sentence (DSS)—in structuring a discourse. I argue that the initial subject of the DSS is semantically detached from the primary sentence and that it is a rhetorical tool used to project a new direction of discourse. To illustrate this detachment, I show how the communicative function of the initial subject is essentially that of a demonstration, a pointing gesture, that accompanies a demonstrative. I show ultimately that the DSS provides a useful illustration of the way speakers maintain knowledge of contextual conditions and how they use that knowledge to organize propositions efficiently and effectively in a discourse.

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