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Information Structure and Sentence Form: Topic, Focus, and the Mental Representations of Discourse Referents (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics) Book

This major contribution to the study of discourse pragmatics investigates the 'information structure' of sentences. Why do speakers of all languages use different grammatical structures under different communicative circumstances to express the...Read More

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  • Book Description

    Why do languages have so many different ways of expressing the same idea? Professor 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 inter-related categories are analysed: presupposition and assertion, identifiability and activation, topic, and focus.'It represents the state of the art in functional syntax.' Journal of Linguistics

  • 0521587042
  • 9780521587044
  • Knud Lambrecht
  • 13 November 1996
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 408
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