Esam N. Khalil

List of John Benjamins publications in which Esam N. Khalil is involved.

Title

Grounding in English and Arabic News Discourse

Esam N. Khalil

Grounding in English and Arabic News Discourse explores the discourse notion of grounding (viz. the foreground-background structure), and examines it in the various structures that occur in short news texts. A text-level approach to grounding and the differentiation between several core concepts… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 82] 2000. x, 274 pp.

Articles

Khalil, Esam N. 2005 Grounding between figure-ground and foregrounding-backgrounding Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Volume 3, Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco José (ed.), pp. 1–21 | Article

The association that has been made between the discourse notion of grounding (viz. the foreground-background semantic structure) and the Gestalt notions of figure and ground has led to equating foreground with prominence — a surface structure property of discourse. Sorting out the terminological… read more

Khalil, Esam N. 2003 The semantics–pragmatics interface: The case of grounding Meaning Through Language Contrast: Volume 2, Jaszczolt, Katarzyna M. and Ken Turner (eds.), pp. 423–440 | Article