Pragmatic Organization of Discourse in the Languages of Europe - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3110157535 ISBN 13 : 9783110157536

Editeur : De Gruyter Mouton, 2006

Synopsis

The volume is a collection of papers reporting the results of investigations on the interaction of discourse and sentence structure in the languages of Europe. The subjects discussed in the book include: morphosyntactic characteristics of spontaneous spoken texts; different patterns of word order in a pragmatic perspective; the coding of the pragmatic functions topic and focus in sentences with non-canonical word orders (e.g. dislocations, clefts); the range of functions of verb-subject order in declarative clauses and the notion of theticity; prosodic patterns of de-accenting of given information; deixis and anaphora; coding of definiteness and article systems. The book provides the empirical basis for the comparative survey of major phenomena found in the languages of Europe which have pragmatic relevance. Beside traditional areas of investigation at the interface between syntax and pragmatics such as dislocations, new areas are explored, such as the prosody of given information. Data are considered within a functional-typological approach.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Giuliano Bernini is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Bergamo, Italy.

Marcia L. Schwartz is affiliated with the Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, Germany.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: De Gruyter Mouton
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3110157535
• ISBN 13: 9783110157536
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 656
• Éditeur: Bernini Giuliano, Schwartz Marcia L.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Walter de Gruyter GmbH; productsafety@degruyterbrill.com; ; Genthiner Straße 13; Berlin; 10785; Allemagne