A textual perspective on Givón's quantity principle

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 292-304

  Ji, Shaojun ^a  

^a CHINESE CULTURE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Episode; Iconicity; Information; Narrative

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750980669     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2006.01.010     Document Type: Article

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