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It is evident that some sort of hierarchical principle is reflected in the organization of this book, which begins with considerations of discourse and dialogue as a whole and ends up with chapters on the internal structure of predications and possible levels of organization lower than that. The purpose of this chapter is two-fold: to make this hierarchical principle explicit and to relate it to the surface structure of discourse; along with this, to expound a contemporary view of tagmemics as a framework for the study of discourse. More about the latter consideration first.
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Longacre, R.E. (1983). A Framework for Discourse Analysis. In: The Grammar of Discourse. Topics in Language and Linguistics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-8018-8_7
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