{"product_id":"discourse-features-of-ten-languages-stephen-h-levinsohn-9780883126196","title":"Discourse Features of Ten Languages of West-Central Africa","description":"Presents 12 papers on coherence, participant reference, and Relevance Theory in Niger-Congo and Chadic languages of Cameroon. The papers are organized into three sections to explain the linguistic features of Niger-Congo and Chadic languages of Cameroon whose meaning can only be explained by taking into account domains larger than the sentence. Folk tales and other narratives are used to illustrate discourse features of 10 languages from Cameroon, Chad, Nigeria, and Zaïre. The first section concentrates on how coherence is maintained in a text when the author introduces a local discontinuity. The second section identifies factors which affect the amount of encoding used as a speaker refers to participants throughout a discourse. The third section presents data that applies insights from Relevance Theory. Describes markers of prominence and backgrounding.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stephen H. Levinsohn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0883126192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780883126196\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Sil International, Global Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/1995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 252\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.53d","brand":"Stephen H. Levinsohn","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48216516952319,"sku":"9780883126196","price":37.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_134bdbb7-32b6-464d-8d16-e3aa980d8f11.jpg?v=1771991527","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/discourse-features-of-ten-languages-stephen-h-levinsohn-9780883126196","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}