Pauses, Cognitive Rhythms and Discourse Structure

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction ix
5. I. Cognition, Perspective, and Modality in Discourse
6. Form-Use Mappings for Tag Questions 3
7. The Social Dimension of a Cognitive Grammar 21
8. Even, Sae/Sura/Mo as Constraints on Contextual Assumptions 37
9. Semantic Content and Depth of Intention 61
10. Perspective, Subjectivity, and Modality from a Cognitive Linguistic Point of View 85
11. II. Metaphors and Metonymy in Discourse
12. A few Metaphorical Models in (Western) Economic Discourse 115
13. The Spatialization of Judgement 131
14. Stop Making Sense! 149
15. Conceptual Blending on the Information Highway 185
16. Speech Act Metonymies 205
17. III. Correlates of Discourse Structure
18. Focus Movements and the Internal Images of Spoken Discourse 223
19. Pauses, Cognitive Rhythms and Discourse Structure 247
20. Subject Index 269
21. List of Contributors 272