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Discourse Analysis in Linguistics: Historical and Theoretical Background

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Book cover Discourse Ability and Brain Damage

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How can one explain the very late concern in linguistics’ contemporary history for discourse analysis, a topic pertaining so obviously to its field of inquiry? More specifically, what made possible the nearly complete exclusion of discourse-level phenomena in linguistics before the 1970s? The explanations for this strange situation involve the prevailing conceptions of linguistic science and, consequently, the nature and scope of the issues perceived as relevant to language.

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  1. Centre de Recherche, Centre hospitalier Côte-des-Neiges, Montréal, Québec, H3W 1W5, Canada

    Yves Joanette Ph.D.

  2. Department of Psychology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, 02167, USA

    Hiram H. Brownell Ph.D.

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Patry, R., Nespoulous, JL. (1990). Discourse Analysis in Linguistics: Historical and Theoretical Background. In: Joanette, Y., Brownell, H.H. (eds) Discourse Ability and Brain Damage. Springer Series in Neuropsychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3262-9_1

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