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

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Lambrecht, Knud

 
9780521587044: Information Structure and Sentence Form: Topic, Focus, and the Mental Representations of Discourse Referents
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ISBN 10 : 0521587042 ISBN 13 : 9780521587044
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1996

Synopsis

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.

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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.

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

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
1996
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0521587042
ISBN 13 
9780521587044
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Broché
Nombre de pages
404
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9780521380560: Information Structure and Sentence Form: Topic, Focus, and the Mental Representations of Discourse Referents

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ISBN 10 :  0521380561 ISBN 13 :  9780521380560
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1994
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