Discourse and Word Order

✍ Scribed by Olga T. Yokoyama

• Publisher: John Benjamins
• Year: 0
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 374
• Series: Pragmatics and Beyond Companion 6
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Integrating various aspects of human communication traditionally treated in a number of separate disciplines, Olga T. Yokoyama develops a universal model of the smallest unit of informational discourse, and uncovers the regularities that govern the intentional verbal transfer of knowledge from one interlocutor to another. The author then places these processes within a new framework of Communicational Competence, which legitimizes certain nebulous but important linguistic phenomena hitherto caught in a noman's land between the formal and functional approaches to language. Russian word order, a classical problem of Slavic linguistics, is subjected to a rigorous examination within this theoretical framework; Yokoyama demonstrates how this free word order language can only be described by taking into account such generally neglected factors as the speakers' subjectivity and attitude. Of particular interest to Slavists is a new generative theory of Russian intonation, which is consistently incorporated into the description of Russian word order.  Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

1. Foreword
   2. Part One: A Model of Knowledge Transactions
   3. Chapter 1: Four Sets of Knowledge in Contact
   4. 0. The Minimal Unit of Discourse
   5. 1. Communicable Knowledge
   6. 2. Sharing Knowledge
   7. 3. Two Individuals in Discourse
   8. Chapter 2: The Procedures for Knowledge Transactions
   9. 0. Constraining Subjectivity
   10. 1. Assessment and Acknowledgment
   11. 2. Misassessment
   12. Chapter 3: Discourse-Initial Utterances
   13. 0. Sentences, Illocutionary Acts and Utterances
   14. 1. Directives
   15. 2. Statements
   16. 3. Effusions
   17. 4. Questions
   18. Chapter 4: Non-Discourse-Initial Utterances
   19. 0. Responses
   20. 1. Obligatory Responses
   21. 2. Voluntary Contributions
   22. Chapter 5: Grammar and Pragmatics
   23. 1. The Model: a Summary
   24. 2. Between Grammar and Pragmatics
   25. 3. Communicational Competence
   26. Part Two: Russian word Order
   27. Chapter 6: History and Preliminaries
   28. 1. Word Order Permutations in Linguistic Theory
   29. 2. Russian Intonation and Word Order
   30. Chapter 7: Discourse-Initial Utterances - I: Assessment
   31. 1. Directives
   32. 2. Statements
   33. 3. Questions
   34. 4. Effusions
   35. 5. Summary
   36. Chapter 8: Discourse-Initial Utterances - II: Imposition and Grammatical Relations
   37. 1. Imposition
   38. 2. Grammatical Relations
   39. Chapter 9: Non-Discourse-Initial Utterances
   40. 1. Answers to Questions
   41. 2. Voluntary Contributions Based on Links by Identity
   42. 3. Voluntary Contributions Based on Links by Associated Knowledge
   43. 4. Summary
   44. Conclusion
   45. References
   46. Indexes

✦ Subjects

Discourse Analysis;Pragmatics