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

Lambrecht, Knud

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0521380561 ISBN 13 : 9780521380560

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1994

Synopsis

This major contribution to the study of discourse pragmatics investigates the 'information structure' of sentences.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Why do speakers of all languages use different grammatical structures under different communicative circumstances to express the same idea? Professor Lambrecht explores the relationship between the structure of the sentence and the linguistic and extra-linguistic context in which it is used. His analysis is based on the observation that the structure of a sentence reflects a speaker's assumption about the hearer's state of knowledge and consciousness at the time of the utterance. This relationship between speaker assumptions and formal sentence structure is governed by rules and conventions of grammar, in a component called 'information structure'. Four independent but interrelated categories are analysed: presupposition and assertion, identifiability and activation, topic, and focus.

Revue de presse

'It represents the state of the art in functional syntax.' Journal of Linguistics

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521380561
• ISBN 13: 9780521380560
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 404
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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