A prominence-based account of temporal discourse structure

Publication date: Available online 21 September 2018Source: LinguaAuthor(s): Martin Becker, Jakob EgetenmeyerAbstractIn this article, we develop an account of temporal discourse structure that is composed of three different levels and based on the notion of prominence. The levels of temporal structuring in discourse are as follows:(i)the level of the linear and hierarchical temporal structure, which is constituted by time points and time spans as well as their interrelations,(ii)the level of perspective and perspective taking, and(iii)the level of foregrounding and backgrounding and text segmentation into story lines.Although these levels have already been identified by the research literature, they have neither been explicated in a systematic way while taking prominence into consideration...

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