Chapter 6. What is foregrounded in narratives? Hypotheses for the cognitive basis of foregrounding

Chapters in this book

1. I-VIII I
2. Chapter 1. Text, discourse and cognition: An introduction 1
3. Chapter 2. Language, discourse, and cognition: Retrospects and prospects 17
4. Chapter 3. On the discourse basis of person agreement 33
5. Chapter 4. The information structure of bilingual meaning: A constructivist approach to Californian Finnish conversation 49
6. Chapter 5. Point of departure: Cognitive aspects of sentence-initial adverbials 79
7. Chapter 6. What is foregrounded in narratives? Hypotheses for the cognitive basis of foregrounding 99
8. Chapter 7. From legal knowledge to legal discourse – and back again 123
9. Chapter 8. Conditionals: Your space or mine? 149
10. Chapter 9. Communicative fragments and the interpretation of discourse 177
11. Chapter 10. Drawing the line: A contested conceptual model in Danish ‘child care talk’ 187
12. Index 209