These works suggest that major and minor discontinuities in discourse structure cause alternations in the different anaphoric forms of reference that speakers regularly use.
Yet its impact is almost always treated as a minor influence in the public discourse both here and in America.
Overt pronouns are argued to occur when anaphor-antecedent relations are structurally interrupted by minor breaks and discontinuities in discourse structure, caused by changes in temporal, spatial, or action continuity, from transitions in description of a referent's physical activities to his/her mental activity, and from switches in narration from background to foreground information (Pu 2011).
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., who argued 39 cases in the Supreme Court before joining it, told students at Columbia Law School in 2008 that lawyers play a relatively minor role in that highly stylized discourse.
It would nonetheless be a misunderstanding to infer from this line of reasoning that such factors as health and economic circumstances play a minor role in the active-ageing discourse.
Those issues often dominate political discourse, but they have played relatively minor roles in driving up medical spending in this country and abroad.
A third, minor narrative offered critique of current and recent discourses on assuring quality of qualitative research but did not appear to offer alternative ways by which to conceptualise or conduct quality assurance.
For the moment, he has escaped with minor damage, if only because 9/11 trumps all other discourse.
In this way, what Freud called the "narcissism of minor differences" drives party activists into closed worlds of discourse, while leaving the rest of Americans feeling that "the system" fails to serve them at all.
The aim of this study was to qualitatively analyze the discourse of Maghrebi adults to the use of Maghrebi minors as translators in the health services.
