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The paper concerns complex syntax in the sense of text-embedded clause-combining. We consider different perspectives on why languages employ complex syntax, taking the usage-based view that “discourse drives grammar”. Complex syntax is analyzed as shedding light on the nature of “contrastive rhetoric”, on the assumption that linguistic typology interacts with rhetorical strategies in the construction...
This article introduces the theme of ‘discourse stance’, the unifying focal point for this special issue, and delineates the three dimensions involved in this notion, as described in the position paper [Berman, Ruth A., Ragnarsdóttir, Hrafnhildur, Strömqvist, Sven, 2002. Discourse stance.Written Language and Literacy 5, 255–290] that forms the source study to the articles in this volume: orientation,...
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