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Peer reviewedMaynard, Senko K. – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1985
Explores the surface structure observed in Japanese and English spontaneous oral narratives from the perspective of subject and theme. Although both the Japanese and the English narratives employ participant identification as a major cohesive ingredient, how referring forms are used and how they contribute to discourse organization differ. (SED)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, English
