Aspect and discourse function: The French simple past in newspaper usage  

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Monville-Burston, Monique ; Waugh, Linda R.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language (ada di JSTOR) vol. 62 no. 4 (Dec. 1986), page 846-877.
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Analysis has shown that discourse function is an assential facet of the meaning of grammatical elemnts; e.g. that perfective and imperfective aspect manifest discourse foregrounding and backgrounding. By focusing on the French S(imple) P(ast) and by analysing newspaper usage, we demonstrate that foregrounding is one result of two properties inherent to SP: DETACHMENT within a universe of discourse of a DIMENSIONALIZED FIGURE. But SP has other, quite different, discourse functions, in addition to important cognitive/referntial, expressive, and pragmatic meanings-all of which are also attributable to detachment and dimensionalization. Thus SP (and, by extension, verbal grammatical categories in general) manifests a complex vareity of functions which must be accounted for by any complete study. Discourse analysis should not supplant, but rather complement, more traditional semantic analysis.*

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