Pragmatic Organization of Discourse in the Languages of Europe
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Pragmatic Organization of Discourse in the Languages of Europe

  1. 656 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Pragmatic Organization of Discourse in the Languages of Europe

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. General Preface
  2. Contributors
  3. I. General issue
  4. Introduction
  5. Spoken and written language
  6. II. From function to form
  7. Sentence topics in the languages of Europe and beyond
  8. Focus in the languages of Europe
  9. Deixis and anaphora: Some case studies
  10. Theticity
  11. III. From form to function
  12. The de-accenting of given information: A cognitive universal?
  13. Interaction of syntactic and pragmatic factors on basic word order in the languages of Europe
  14. Articles and article systems in some areas of Europe
  15. Indexes
  16. Subject index
  17. Language index
  18. Author index