Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-376) and index. 1.Meanings and How we Express Them --2.Which Come First, Words or Meanings? --3.The Man Behind the Message --4.Person to Person --5.Things, Thoughts, and Words: Mostly Thoughts --6.Things, Thoughts, and Words: Mostly Words --7.Communicating Messages Purposively --8.Communicating Messages with Several Purposes --9.Presenting Messages Appropriately --10.The Shaping of Longer Messages --11.The Message as a Unit --12.Schematic and Nonschematic Message Patterns --13.Configurations: Determining the Boundaries --14.Configurations: The Topic --15.Configurations: The Theme --16.Referential Relations --17.Presentational Relations --18.The Proposition --19.Propositionalising a Text --20.The Meaning Structure of a Text.

Classification

• LCC: P325
• Dewey Decimal: 401/.41

Book Details

• Language: eng
• Physical Description: xvi, 383 p. ; 24 cm.
• Edition Info: (paper : alk. paper)

Subjects

• Semantics
• Communication -- Psychological aspects
• Discourse analysis

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