Setting the background in discourse

Backgrounding relations play a crucial role in discourse and occur frequently in both written and oral corpora. These relations come in two flavors: either the background is introduced after or before the foreground (respectively Backgroundbackwardand Backgroundforward). In Segmented Discourse Repre...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Nicholas Asher, Laurent Prévot, Laure Vieu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses universitaires de Caen 2008-05-01
Series:Discours
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/discours/301