DEIXIS AND INFORMATION PACKAGING IN RUSSIAN DISCOURSE -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Tables and figures -- Preface -- Transcription Conventions and Abbreviations -- PART I. PRIMARY DEIXIS -- Chapter 1. A Framework for Deixis and Information Packaging -- 1.1 Discourse, deixis, and information packaging -- 1.1.1 Theoretical issues in defining deixis -- 1.1.2 Deixis and information packaging -- 1.1.3 A framework for discourse -- 1.2 Dimensions of deixis and information packaging -- 1.2.1 Discourse deixis -- 1.2.2 Deixis or anaphora ? -- 1.2.3 Discourse particles -- 1.3 The deictic center and the deictic field -- 1.3.1 The origo -- 1.3.2 The deictic field -- 1.3.3 Egocentricity and deictic shifts -- 1.4 The deictic frame of reference -- Chapter 2. The Primary Deictic Dimensions -- 2.1 Primary deixis -- 2.2 A framework for spatial descriptions -- 2.2.1 The oppositions ± proximal and ±inclusive -- 2.2.2 Fundamentals of locating expressions -- 2.3 Spatial deixis -- 2.3.1 Deictic motion verbs -- 2.3.2 "Hidden " deixis and the spatial prefixes -- 2.4 Temporal deixis -- 2.4.1 Tense in Russian -- 2.5 Person, pronouns and participants -- 2.5.1 Pronominal systems and discourse deixis -- 2.5.2 Presentatives -- 2.5.3 Demonstrative pronouns -- 2.6 Conclusion -- PART II. DEIXIS AND THE TEXT -- Chapter 3. Spatio-temporal Mappings: Directional Deictics -- 3.1 Directional discourse deictics -- 3.2 Spatial directional deictics -- 3.2.1 Locating expressions in the text -- 3.2.2 Space and the text -- 3.3 Temporal directional deictics -- 3.3.1 Discourse time -- 3.3.2 Event time -- 3.3.3 Converging time lines in discourse -- 3.4 The here and now -- 3.4.1 The now-sejčas and teper' -- 3.4.2 The here- tut and zdes' -- 3.4.3 The intersection of time and space-tut -- 3.5 Conclusion -- Chapter 4. Knowledge and Evidentiality.

4.1 Sources of knowledge -- 4.2 Reported speech -- 4.2.1 Temporal reference and deixis -- 4.2.2 The matrix verb in reported speech -- 4.3 Sources of knowledge and evidentiality -- 4.3.1 Quotative particles -- 4.3.2 The verb govorit' as an evidential -- 4.4 Evidential adverbs and conjunctions -- 4.5 Footing and speaker evaluation -- 4.6 Conclusion -- PART III. DISCOURSE AND INFORMATION PACKAGING -- Chapter 5. Information Packaging -- 5.1 Information packaging -- 5.1.1 Discourse topic -- 5.1.2 Topic-comment -- 5.1.3 Framing topics -- 5.2 Discourse units -- 5.2.1 Scene-setting devices -- 5.2.2 Verbal categories and episode boundaries -- 5.2.3 Openings and closings -- 5.2.4 Repetition -- 5.3 Sentential-level tracking -- 5.3.1 The participant framework and anaphora -- 5.3.2 Thematic switch -- 5.3.3 Participant tracking -- 5.4 Deixis and focus -- 5.4.1 Quasi-clefts -- 5.4.2 Left-dislocation -- 5.5 Conclusion -- Chapter 6. Grounding and Saliency -- 6.1 Grounding and saliency -- 6.2 Predicate properties -- 6.2.1 Tense and aspect -- 6.2.2 Mood -- 6.2.3 Event order -- 6.3 Individuation and the participants -- 6.3.1 Animacy and person -- 6.3.2 Number -- 6.3.3 Definiteness -- 6.4 Syntactic encodings-voice and transitivity -- 6.4.1 Voice in Russian -- 6.4.2 Participant frameworks -- 6.5 Conclusion -- Chapter 7. Conclusion -- Appendix Texts -- Data -- 1. Spontaneous texts and interviews -- Part 2. The Frog Stories -- Notes -- References -- Name Index -- Subject Index.