Salience: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on its Function in Discourse (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs)

✍ Scribed by Christian Chiarcos, Berry Claus, Michael Grabski (editors)

Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Year: 2011
Tongue: Latin
Leaves: 289
Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Salience refers to the prominence of information; salient items pop out and capture attention. This volume addresses the role of salience in discourse. It illustrates the range of multidisciplinary approaches - their diversities and similarities. The collection of papers covers a variety of research with different foci ranging from discourse entities, to discourse segments, to extra-linguistic factors.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Introduction: Salience in linguistics and beyond......Page 8
Part I. Entity-based salience in discourse......Page 36
Demonstratives and salience: Towards a functional taxonomy......Page 38
Parenthetical agent-demoting constructions in Eastern Khanty: Discourse Salience vis-à-vis referring expressions......Page 64
Joint information value of syntactic and semantic prominence for subsequent pronominal reference......Page 88
The Mental Salience Framework: Context-adequate generation of referring expressions......Page 112
Part II. Beyond entities in discourse......Page 148
Discourse-structural salience from a cross-linguistic perspective: Coordination and its contribution to discourse (structure)......Page 150
Rhetorical relations and verb placement in Old High German......Page 180
Part III. Beyond purely linguistic salience......Page 210
Visual salience and the other one......Page 212
Salience in hypertext: Multiple preferred centers in a plurilinear discourse environment......Page 236
Establishing salience during narrative text comprehension: A simulation view account......Page 258
Index of determinants, manifestations and aspects of salience......Page 286
Subject index......Page 288

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