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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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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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