Discourse, Consciousness, and Time

Preface
Acknowledgments
Symbols Used in Transcriptions of Speech
1: Introduction
2: Understanding Language and the Mind
3: The Nature of Consciousness
4: Speaking and Writing
5: Intonation Units
6: Activation Cost
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
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 in Written Third-Person Fiction
20: Written Fiction That (Partially) Lacks a Represented Consciousness
21: Written Nonfiction
22: Displacement Integrated with Flow
23: Written Paragraphs and Discourse Topics
24: Epilogue
References
Index