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The Structural Design of Language

By Thomas S. Stroik, Michael T. Putnam

In this book, Stroik and Putnam take on Turing's challenge. They argue that the narrow syntax – the lexicon, the Numeration, and the computational system – must reside, for reasons of conceptual necessity, within the performance systems.


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Query:   Summary of Spanish discourse terms
Author:  Douglas Demo
Submitter Email:  click here to access email
Linguistic LingField(s):   Discourse Analysis
General Linguistics

Summary:   Dear Linguists,
Thanks to those who responded to my earlier query about the translation of
some discourse terms into Spanish. Here are some of the suggestions which
I received:

coherence-coherencia
overlap-superposicion, area de coincidencia, solapar
repair- reparacion, reparar
turntaking- turno de habla, tomar el turno
backchannel- retrocanalizacion
cohesion- cohesion
speech act- acto de habla
frame- marco
footing- asentar, asentamiento

Thanks again. I hope others find the terms useful as well.

Douglas Demo
PhD fellow in Applied Linguistics
Georgetown University

LL Issue: 10.754
Date Posted: 17-May-1999
Original Query: Read original query


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