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Exploring the difference between information that is presented as new, referring to entities that are already "on deck", inferable or not previously mentioned, (visible etc). Examples include text excerpts in which entities are presented as if they are New even though they have been the topic of several previous sentences.
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These examples serve as counter examples to several descriptions of New and Given.
Peter H Fries
Central Michigan University
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This page is a summary of: Issues in modelling the textual metafunction, January 2001, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/z.107.06fri.
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