Information Structure and Sentence Form: Topic, Focus, and the Mental Representations of Discourse Referents

✍ Scribed by Lambrecht K.

• Tongue: English
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• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Cambridge University Press. 1994. — 408 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, No. 71). — ISBN: 9780511620607; 9780521380560

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.

Preface
Introduction
Information
The mental representations of discourse referents
Pragmatic relations: topic
Pragmatic relations: focus
Summary and conclusion
Notes
References
Index

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✦ Subjects

Языки и языкознание;Лингвистика;Прагмалингвистика