Information Structure and Sentence Form: Topic, Focus, and the Mental Representations of Discourse Referents

Information Structure and Sentence Form: Topic, Focus, and the Mental Representations of Discourse Referents 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 speakers assumptions about the hearers state of knowledge and consciousness at the time of the utterance. Autor: Knud (University of Texas Lambrecht Wydawnictwo: Cambridge University Press Rok wydania: 1996 Okładka: miękka Liczba stron: 408 Wymiary: 22.8 x 15.6 x 2.5 cm Ilustracje: 2 Tables, unspecified Język: angielski ISBN: 9780521587044