Notes and Comments: Something Old, Something New: Functional Sentence Perspective.

Vande Kopple, William J.

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Publication Date: 1983-Feb

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Notes and Comments: Something Old, Something New: Functional Sentence Perspective.

Vande Kopple, William J.

Research in the Teaching of English, v17 n1 p85-99 Feb 1983

Examines whether a discourse consistent with functional sentence perspective (FSP) theory, which predicts how units of information should be distributed in a sentence and how sentences should be related in a discourse, is more memorable and readable than one contradictory to FSP. (HOD)

Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), Discourse Analysis, Language Research, Linguistic Theory, Readability, Sentence Structure, Structural Analysis (Linguistics)

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Language: English

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