Information Structure and Sentence Form: Topic, Focus, and the Mental Representations of Discourse Referents
(Part of the Cambridge Studies in Linguistics Series)
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Why do languages have so many different ways of expressing the same idea? 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 interrelated categories are analyzed: presupposition and assertion,...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0521587042
ISBN13:9780521587044
Release Date:December 1996
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:408 Pages
Weight:1.30 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"
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