Abstract
The goal of this paper is to compare and contrast some discourse features of English and Marathi. The paper is divided into four parts. The introductory sections review the main theoretical approaches for discourse analysis in general and discourse in South Asian languages in particular. Some of these insights are later used in this study. The first sections of part 2 point out the role of sociocultural differences in the discourse patterns of English and Marathi. The second section of part 2 focuses on the differences in the morphological and syntactic patterns which are used as discourse strategies in Marathi and English.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 118-136 |
| Journal | Annual Review of Applied Linguistics |
| Volume | 3 |
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| State | Published - Mar 1 1982 |