Table of Contents
      Discourse, Consciousness, and Time
      Wallace Chafe


      Preface
      Acknowledgments
      Symbols Used in Transcriptions of Speech

      Part One Preliminaries
      1    Introduction
      2    Understanding Language and the Mind
      3    The Nature of Consciousness
      4    Speaking and Writing

      Part Two Flow
      5    Intonation Units
      6    Activation Costs
      7    Starting Points, Subjects, and the Light Subject Constraint
      8    Identifiability and "Definiteness"
      9    The One New Idea Constraint
      10  Discourse Topics
      11  Topic Hierarchies and Sentences
      12  Another Language
      13  Some Alternative Approaches to Information Flow
      14 The Flow of Consciousness in Music

      Part Three Displacement
      15  The Immediate and Displaced Modes in Conversational Language
      16  Representing Other Speech and Thought in Conversation
      17  Displaced Immediacy in Written First-Person FIction
      18  Representing Other Speech and Thought in First-Person Fiction with Displaced Immediacy
      19  Displaced Immediacy with Written Third-Person Fiction
      20  Written Fiction That (Partially) Lacks a Represented Consciousness
      21  Written Nonfiction
      22 Displaced Integrated with Flow
      23  Written Paragraphs and Discourse Topics
      24  Epilogue

      References
      Index
       



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