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Discourse structure

Index of SIL publications on Discourse structure listed by country.

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General works

• Andersen, T. David. 1994. "Genealogical prominence and the structure of Genesis."
• Bartsch, Carla. 1994. "Translating The Lord’s Prayer: Are we telling God what to do?."
• Bliese, Loren F. 1993. "Chiastic and homogeneous metrical structures enhanced by word patterns in Obadiah."
• Bliese, Loren F. 1995. "A cryptic chiastic acrostic: Finding meaning from structure in the poetry of Nahum."
• Bliese, Loren F. 1999. "The poetics of Habakkuk."
• Bliese, Loren F. 2004. "Metrical and lexical patterning in the structure of Zephaniah."
• Blood, David L. 1979. "Systemic summary statements in Acts."
• Brainard, Sherri. 1998. Review of: Studies in anaphora, Barbara Fox, editor.
• Clark, David J. 1992. "Discourse structure in Haggai."
• Clark, David J. 1994. "Vision and oracle in Zechariah 1-6."
• Clendenen, E. Ray. 1993. "Old Testament prophecy as hortatory text: Examples from Malachi."
• de Regt, Lénart J. 1996. "Domains of Biblical Hebrew discourse as a translation problem."
• Dooley, Robert A. 1997. Review of: Information structure and sentence form: topic, focus, and the mental representation of discourse referents, by Knud Lambrecht.
• Fedukowski, Donna. 1985. "On the use of ‘hoste’ with the infinitive."
• Floor, Sebastiaan. 1993. "Emphasis markers in Greek discourse: a study in Louw and Nida’s lexicon."
• Fox, Mary H. 1994. "Holiness in Leviticus."
• Grimes, Joseph E. 1975. "Signals of discourse structure in Koine."
• Hansford, Keir L. 1992. "The underlying poetic structure of 1 John."
• Hays, J. Daniel. 1995. "Verb forms in the expository discourse sections of Ecclesiastes."
• Hohulin, E. Lou. 2003. Review of: Evaluation in text: authorial stance and the construction of discourses, Susan Hunston and Geoff Thompson, editors.  
• Hollenbach, Bruce E. and James K. Watters. 1998. "Study guide on pragmatics and discourse."
• Hwang, Shin Ja J. 1990. "Foreground information in narrative."
• Hwang, Shin Ja J. and William R. Merrifield, editors. 1992. Language in context: Essays for Robert E. Longacre.  
• Kempf, Stephen. 1993. "Genesis 3:14-19: Climax of the discourse?."
• Kempf, Stephen. 1996. "Introducing the Garden of Eden: The structure and function of Genesis 2:4b-7."
• Kuhn, Hanni. 1994. "Is Gen. 27-46 P or J? and how the answer affects translation."
• Levinsohn, Stephen H. 1992. Discourse features of New Testament Greek: a coursebook.
• Levinsohn, Stephen H. 2000. Discourse features of New Testament Greek: a coursebook on the information structure of New Testament Greek.  
• Lode, Lars. 1994. "A discourse perspective on the significance of the Masoretic accents."
• Longacre, R. E. 1977. "Tagmemics as a framework for discourse analysis."
• Longacre, Robert E. 1994. "‘Weqatal’ forms in biblical Hebrew prose: a discourse-modular approach."
• Longacre, Robert E. 2003. "Discourse structure, verb forms, and archaism in Psalm 18."
• Longacre, Robert E. 2006. "Discourse structure, verb forms, and archaism in Psalm 18."  
• Lunn, Nick. 1996. "Paronomastic constructions in Biblical Hebrew."
• Machali, Rochayah. 1999. "Shifts in discourse perspectives and the question of translation equivalence."
• Mann, William C. and Sandra A. Thompson. 1992. "Relational discourse structure: a comparison of approaches to structuring texts by ‘contrast’."  
• Nicolle, Steve. 2007. Review of: Constructions of intersubjectivity: discourse, syntax, and cognition, by Arie Verhagen.  
• Nida, Eugene A. 1992. "Basic elements of discourse structures."  
• Parunak, H. Van Dyke. 1994. "Some discourse functions of prophetic quotation formulas in Jeremiah."
• Quick, Philip A. 1993. "Resumptive repetition: a two-edged sword."
• Reed, Jeffrey T. 1993. "Discourse features in New Testament letters, with special reference to the structure of 1 Timothy."
• Roberts, John R. 2009. A study of Persian discourse structure.
• Sim, Ronald J. 1992. "Notes on Haggai 2:10-21."
• Some, Joachim. 2003. "Isaiah 7:1-17 revisited: a literary reading."
• Swartz, Stephen M. 1986. "Clause level focus in John’s Gospel and pragmatic structure."
• Terry, Ralph Bruce. 1992. "Some aspects of the discourse structure of the book of James."
• Terry, Ralph Bruce. 1996. "Patterns of discourse structure in 1 Corinthians."
• Tuggy, David. 1996. "Report on 1995 LSA Summer Institute."
• Ulatowska, Hanna K. and Maria Sadowska. 1992. "Some observations on aphasic texts."  
• Unger, Christoph. 1996. "The scope of discourse connectives: implications for discourse organization."
• Wendland, Ernst R. 1994. "Oral-aural dynamics of the Word, with special reference to John 17."
• Wendland, Ernst R. 1995. "Seeking the path through a forest of symbols: a figurative and structural survey of the Song of Songs."
• Winther-Nielsen, Nicolai. 1992. "‘In the beginning’ of Biblical Hebrew discourse: Genesis 1:1 and the fronted time expression."  
• Zogbo, Lynell. 2003. "Rhetorical devices and structure "at the service" of the message: the final vision in the book of Amos."

Works specific to particular countries

Africa

Cameroon

• Heath, Daniel P. and Teresa A. Heath. 1994. "Preposed constituents and discontinuities in Makaa discourse."
• Levinsohn, Stephen H. 1994. "Discontinuities in coherent texts."
• Levinsohn, Stephen H., editor. 1994. Discourse features of ten languages of West-Central Africa.  
• Wilkendorf, Patricia L. 1994. "Cohesion and discontinuities in Nɔmaandɛ expository discourse."

Côte d’Ivoire

• Egner, Inge. 1988. "Problemes d’interpretation fonctionnelle et d’integration hierarchique de l’échange-écho en Wobe (parler wɛɛ de Côte d’Ivoire)."
• Egner, Inge. 1995. "Le rôle de l’intermédiaire dans l’échange de nouvelles en Godié (langue Kru de Côte d’Ivoire)."

Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Levinsohn, Stephen H., editor. 1994. Discourse features of ten languages of West-Central Africa.  

Kenya

• Larsen, Iver A. 1991. "Boundary features."

Nigeria

• Levinsohn, Stephen H., editor. 1994. Discourse features of ten languages of West-Central Africa.  

Togo

• Higdon, Lee M. 1996. Tense, aspect, and modality in Gangam narrative and hortatory discourse.

Americas

Brazil

• Abbott, Miriam. 1976. "Estrutura oracional da língua Makúxi."
• Jackson, Evelyn. 1977. "Discurso processual em Waurá."
• Levinsohn, Stephen H. 1999. "Ordering of propositions in OV languages in Brazil."
• Odmark, Mary Ann. 1987. "A sobreposição e outras técnicas de repetição em paumarí."
• Popovich, A. Harold. 1985. Discourse phonology of Maxakalí: a multilevel, multiunit approach.
• Stute, Horst. 1986. "Constituent order, cohesion, and staging in Gavião."  
• Stute, Horst. 1987. "A ordem, a coerência e a ensenação nas orações em gavião."

Colombia

• Schauer, Stanley. 1975. Paragraphs in Yucuna discourse.

Guatemala

• Oltrogge, David F. and others. 1975. Ponencias de los miembros del Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., en la XIV Reunión de Mesa Redonda de la Sociedad Mexicana de Antropología y la I Reunión de Antropólogos e Historiadores de Centramérica y México, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, 22 al 28 de junio de 1975.

Honduras

• Oltrogge, David F. and others. 1975. Ponencias de los miembros del Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., en la XIV Reunión de Mesa Redonda de la Sociedad Mexicana de Antropología y la I Reunión de Antropólogos e Historiadores de Centramérica y México, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, 22 al 28 de junio de 1975.

Mexico

• Agee, Margaret A. 1993. "Fronting in San Jeronimo Mazatec."
• Anderson, Lynn. 1993. "You can say that again: Repetition in Alacatlatzala Mixtec."
• Benton, Joseph P. 1997. "Aspect shift in Chichicapan Zapotec narrative discourse."
• Harris, Larry R. 1995. "Some features of narrative discourse in Santiago Nuyoo Mixtec."
• Hollenbach, Barbara E. 1995. "A preliminary catalog of focus devices in Mixtecan languages."
• Hollenbach, Bruce E. 1975. "Discourse structure, interpropositional relations, and translation."
• Schram, Terry L. 1990. "The logical structure of John’s Gospel."
• Williams, Judith. 1993. "The fronting of noun and adverb phrases in Mixtec of Tezoatlan."
• Williams, Judith. 2008. "The fronting of noun and adverb phrases in Mixtec of Tezoatlán."  

Peru

• Fast, Gerhard. 1975. Estructura de la narración en achual.  
• Larson, Mildred L. 1996. "La estructura del texto aguaruna."  
• Parker, Stephen G. 1998. "Notes on determiners in Chamicuro."
• Shaver, Dwight Andrew. 2000. "Nexos: elemento cohesivo del texto una técnica de enlace en el discurso del quechua Inkawasi-Kañaris."

Saint Lucia

• Frank, David B. 1990. The structural organization of St. Lucian French Creole narrative texts.

United States

• Hwang, Shin Ja J. 1989. "Recursion in the paragraph as a unit of discourse development."

Asia

China

• Morev, Lev N. 1998. "Expressing comparison in the Tai languages."  

India

• Joseph, D. Selwyn. 1990. "Some discourse features of Dhurwa narratives."
• Thomas, Christopher and Vasanthi Thomas. 1990. "Storyline scheme for the Chodri language."
• Trail, Ronald L., editor. 1973. Patterns in clause, sentence, and discourse in selected languages of India and Nepal 2: Clause.  
• Trail, Ronald L., editor. 1973. Patterns in clause, sentence, and discourse in selected languages of India and Nepal 3: Texts.  
• Trail, Ronald L., editor. 1973. Patterns in clause, sentence, and discourse in selected languages of India and Nepal 4: Word lists.  

Indonesia

• Berry, Christine. 1998. "The art of the storyteller in Abun society."
• Heeschen, Volker. 1994. "How long are clauses and sentences in a Papuan language like Eipo?."
• Silzer, Sheryl. 1979. "Some figures and ground functions in Ambai narrative."

Laos

• Morev, Lev N. 1998. "Expressing comparison in the Tai languages."  

Malaysia

• Miller, John and Carolyn Miller. 1991. "Thematic continuity and development in Coastal Kadazan narratives."
• Moody, David C. 1991. "Continuity and development in Idaʼan narrative discourse."

Nepal

• Hale, Austin and David E. Watters, editors. 1973. Clause, sentence, and discourse patterns in selected languages of Nepal 2: Clause.  
• Hale, Austin, editor. 1973. Clause, sentence, and discourse patterns in selected languages of Nepal 1: General approach.  
• Trail, Ronald L., editor. 1973. Patterns in clause, sentence, and discourse in selected languages of India and Nepal 2: Clause.  
• Trail, Ronald L., editor. 1973. Patterns in clause, sentence, and discourse in selected languages of India and Nepal 3: Texts.  
• Trail, Ronald L., editor. 1973. Patterns in clause, sentence, and discourse in selected languages of India and Nepal 4: Word lists.  

Pakistan

• Ross, David A. 1999. "A beginning look at Brahui connectives."
• Trail, Ronald L. and Austin Hale. 1995. A rhetorical structure analysis of a Kalasha narrative.

Philippines

• Benn, Keith. 1987. Discourse approaches to cohesion: a study of the structure and unity of a Central Bontok expository text.
• Brichoux, Robert and Austin Hale. 1977. "Some characteristics of hortatory strategy in Subanun."  
• Gault, JoAnn. 2003. "Pronouns in Sama Bangingi' hortatory discourse."
• Hale, Austin and C. Richard Gieser. 1977. "Approaches to an explanatory discourse in Guinaang Kalinga."  
• Hale, Austin. 1977. "Comments on the Thurman chart (band analysis): a technique for seeing how various kinds of information are marked in discourse."  
• Lee, Byung-Hoon. 2007. Translation of hortatory discourse into Central Bontok: a case study of Amos 5:1-17.
• Pebley, Carol Jean and Sherri Brainard. 1999. "The functions of fronted noun phrases in Kagayanen expository discourse."
• Walrod, Michael R. 1983. Philosophy of normative discourse and persuasion: a study of Gaʼdang exhortation and argumentation.
• Wiens, Hartmut. 1990. "A stratificational perspective on the discourse structure of Limos Kalinga."

Thailand

• Migliazza, Brian. 2001. So procedural texts.

Viet Nam

• Morev, Lev N. 1998. "Expressing comparison in the Tai languages."  
• Thomas, David D., editor. 1966. Papers on four Vietnamese languages.

Pacific

Australia

• Glass, Amee Dorothy. 1997. Cohesion in Ngaanyatjarra discourse.

New Caledonia

• Schooling, Stephen J. 1985. "More on Matthew’s brackets: a study of the function of time references in Matthew’s Gospel."

Papua New Guinea

• Edmiston, Patrick. 1982. "Kosena paragraph structure."
• Healey, Joan. 1984. Some aspects of topic continuity in Mangga Buang discourse.  
• Hemmilä, Ritva. 1989. "The demonstrative pronouns ‘pa’ and ‘ti’ in Urim discourse."
• Howard, David Edward. 2002. Continuity and given-new status of discourse referents in Adzera oral narrative.  
• Huckett, Joyce. 1978. Iduna paragraph and discourse structure.  
• Lawrence, Marshall. 1977. "Quotations in Oksapmin."  
• Lewis, Ronald K. 1972. "Sanio-Hiowe paragraph structure."
• Longacre, Robert E. 1972. Hierarchy and universality of discourse constituents in New Guinea languages: Discussion.
• Loving, Richard, editor. 1976. Grammatical studies in Suena and Iduna.
• Pike, Evelyn G. 1997. "The grammatical structure of a New Guinea Pidgin procedural discourse."
• Roberts, John R. 1997. "The syntax of discourse structure."