Discourse studies in Cognitive Linguistics -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- References -- EMBODIED IN A CONSTRUCTED WORLD -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Using General Knowledge: 'Associative Anaphora' and 'Evoked' Entities -- 3. Narrative Worlds: Constructing and Utilising Text-Specific Knowledge -- 4. Narrative Contexts: 'Episodic' Links between Participants -- 5. Embodied Characters in Mentally Constructed Contexts -- 6. In and Out of Context: Different Types of Narrative Processing -- 7. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- REFERENCE AND WORKING MEMORY -- 1. Preliminaries: Linguistics and cognitive science -- 2. Working memory -- 3. Referential choice in discourse: A cognitive calculative approach -- 4. An application to English data: the Margaret study -- 5. Capacity -- 6. Control -- 7. Forgetting -- 8. Conclusions -- Appendix -- References -- ROLES, FRAMES AND DEFINITENESS -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Roles -- 3. Other Functions of the Definite Article -- 4. Accessibility -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- THE SELECTION OF DEFINITE EXPRESSIONS IN SPANISH -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Definition of Definiteness -- 3. The Use of Definite Expressions -- 4. Determining Relative Prominence -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- THEME, COMMENT, AND NEWNESS AS FIGURES IN INFORMATION STRUCTURING -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Overview of Major Points -- 3. Theme -- 4. Comment -- 5. Newness -- 6. Narrative -- 7. Conclusions -- References -- COGNITIVE EFFECTS OF SHELL NOUNS -- 1. Introduction -- 2. What are shell nouns? -- 3. Cognitive effects of shell nouns -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- PROSODIC MARKERS OF TEXT STRUCTURE -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical Background -- 3. Experimental method -- 4. Results -- 5. Discussion and conclusions -- References -- ACCENT AND MODAL PARTICLES -- 1. Introduction.

2. A first exploration of the facts: modal particles resist accentuation -- 3. Presuppositions -- 4. Two accent theories -- 5. Complications -- 6. Modal particles as semi-clitical elements: an additional explanatory factor -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- HOW DUTCH FINAL PARTICLES CONSTRAIN THE CONSTRUAL OF UTTERANCES -- 1. The problem of final particles in Modern Dutch -- 2. A semantic analysis of the particles -- 3. The experimental task -- 4. Predictions -- 5. Results -- 6. The effect of the carrier sentence -- 7. From etymology to pragmatics? -- 8. Conclusions -- References -- INDEX -- The series CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY.