Kristin Davidse, Ngum Meyuhnsi Njende and Gerard O’Grady (2023). Specificational and Presentational There-Clefts: Redefining the Field of Clefts. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
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Discourse and Interaction
A book review.
Martin Adam
Martin Adam is Associate Professor at the Department of English Language and Literature, Masaryk University, Brno. In his research, he specialises in the theory of functional sentence perspective (FSP) and religious discourse. Apart from a number of journal articles and book chapters, he is the author of A handbook of functional sentence perspective (2008) and two monographs: Functional macrofield perspective (2009) and Presentation sentences (syntax, semantics and FSP) (2013). Adam co-authored Persuasion in specialised discourses published with Palgrave Macmillan in 2020.
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Address: Martin Adam, Department of English Language and Literature, Masaryk University, Poříčí 9, Brno 603 00, Czech Republic. [e-mail: adam@ped.muni.cz]
Davidse, K., Njende, N. M., & O’Grady, G. (2023). Specificational and Presentational There-Clefts: Redefining the Field of Clefts. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32270-9.

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