This paper deals with the way temporal connectives affect Temporal Structure as well as Discourse Structure in Narratives. It presents a contrastive study of French connectives puis (then, afterwards) and un peu plus tard (a bit later) within the framework of Segmented Discourse Representation Theory. It shows that puis is a marker of the Narration discourse relation, whereas un peu plus tard b...

Abstract: The goal of this article is to investigate the work Gilberto Freyre about a specific topic, that is, narration cities through lens press, an object study not detached from most fundamental pillars his work, marked by empathetic look at past and defense Iberian heritage, considered hybrid plastic. theme was present in Freyre’s books, such as Guia prático, histórico e sentimental da cid...

Children’s visual attention to, and comprehension of, a television progmm was measured OS 0 function of inserts called preplays that varied on two orthogonal dimensions: (1) Presence or absence of visual excerpts from the pragmm, and (2) concrete or inferential story narration. visual fixation was coded continuously for 64 pairs of same-sex children, in 1st through 4th gmdes, while they viewed ...

In this paper, I want to discuss one type of “pragmatic ambiguity”, i.e. utterances of which it is not clear whether they are sentences of narration or represented speech and thought. Through the discussion of these examples, I will introduce a few notions which seem to me important for the analysis of represented speech and thought, notably the notion of metarepresentation. I will then turn to...