diff --git a/Syntax/BG4E-Syntax.md b/Syntax/BG4E-Syntax.md index 1579c6f..3a7ac74 100644 --- a/Syntax/BG4E-Syntax.md +++ b/Syntax/BG4E-Syntax.md @@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ - [Clauses (子句) §61](§61.md) - [Sentence (句子) §62](§62.md) - Part VI 段落與話語篇章 (Paragraph and Discourse) §600 + - [[discourse is more than]] - Part VII Context and Cotext §700 - [[Hebraic Influence]] diff --git a/Syntax/discourse is more than.md b/Syntax/discourse is more than.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..85c6733 --- /dev/null +++ b/Syntax/discourse is more than.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +“John fell in the river, +got very cold, +and had two large whiskies. + +As Toolan points out, if these clauses are rearranged, the ‘story’ changes radically: + +John had two large whiskies, +fell in the river, +and got very cold. + +Although the individual clauses are still the same, the meaning of two of them has changed as their textual context has changed (assuming that the reader has drawn some fairly standard inferences about alcohol).” + +[Emmott (1999:79)](https://amzn.to/3K2TtyP) \ No newline at end of file