Information structure and sentence form: topic, focus, and the mental representations of discourse referents
Auteur :
Lambrecht, Knud
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9780521587044
Date de publication :
13 nov. 1996
Dimensions :
23,4 x 15,6 x 2,7 cm
Poids :
600 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.