Information Structure and Sentence Form
Topic, Focus, and the Mental Representations of Discourse Referents
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- Author: Knud Lambrecht, University of Texas, Austin
- Date Published: November 1996
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- isbn: 9780521587044
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Why do languages have so many different ways of expressing the same idea? Lambrecht addresses this question through an investigation of the "information structure" of sentences. His analysis is based on the observation that the structure of a sentence reflects a speaker's assumptions about the hearer's state of knowledge and consciousness at the time of the utterance. Four independent but interrelated categories are analyzed: presupposition and assertion, identifiability and activation, topic, and focus.
Read more- Major contribution to the study of discourse pragmatics, and its relevance to grammatical analysis and linguistic theory
- Comprehensive theory combining various aspects of information structure usually considered in isolation by other authors
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- Date Published: November 1996
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521587044
- length: 408 pages
- dimensions: 234 x 156 x 27 mm
- weight: 0.6kg
- contains: 2 tables
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Table of Contents
Preface
1. Introduction
2. Information
3. The mental representations of discourse referents
4. Pragmatic relations: topic
5. Pragmatic relations: focus
6. Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.
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