Information structure in discourse: Towards an integrated formal theory of pragmatics
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Information structure in discourse: Towards an integrated formal theory of pragmatics
For many linguists interested in pragmatics, including the Prague School theorists, Halliday (1967), and Vallduví (1992,1993), information structure is a sentence-level structure. It is generally characterized as a variation of sentential structure along certain parameters to modulate the presentation of the information imparted by the sentence in such a way as to relate that information to pri...
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عنوان ژورنال: Semantics and Pragmatics
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1937-8912
DOI: 10.3765/sp.5.6