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Meta-informative Centering in Utterances

Between Semantics and Pragmatics

Gebonden Engels 2013 9789027206107
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The notion of information has nowadays become crucial both in our daily life and in many branches of science and technology. In language studies, this notion was used as a technical term for the first time about at least fifty years ago. It is argued, however, that "Old" and "New", used traditionally for characterising information, refer in fact to the meta-informative status of communicated chunks of information. They provide information about other information. Since subjects and objects, as attention-driven phrases, are also related to aboutness, the presented Meta-Informative Centering (MIC) framework includes predication theory. By applying the MIC theory to their analyses of English, German, French, Polish, Russian, Greek, Latin, and Japanese, the authors provide comprehensive explanations of the most puzzling aspects of the pragmatic use of basic universal linguistic categories. It seems clear now that canonical syntactic patterns, their permutations, and diverse transformations do indeed reflect very truly the meta-informative encapsulation of utterances. As a consequence, this book presents new and coherent theoretical solutions as well as their very efficient applications.

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ISBN13:9789027206107
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:Gebonden
Aantal pagina's:323
Uitgever:John Benjamins Publishing Co

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1. Preface; 2. Introduction (by Wlodarczyk, Andre); 3. Part 1. Associative semantics and meta-informative centering; 4. Roles and anchors of semantic situations (by Wlodarczyk, Andre); 5. Frames of semantic situations (by Wlodarczyk, Andre); 6. Grounding of the meta-informative status of utterances (by Wlodarczyk, Andre); 7. Attention-centered information in language (by Wlodarczyk, Helene); 8. Part 2. Neuropsychological evidence for the MIC theory; 9. Semantic and episodic memory by reference to the ontological grounding of the old and new meta-informative status (by Stachowiak, Franz J.); 10. Tracing the role of memory and attention for the meta-informative validation of utterances (by Stachowiak, Franz J.); 11. Part 3. Meta-informative centering in languages; 12. It-clefts in the meta-informative structure of the utterance in Modern and Present-day English (by Martinez-Insua, Ana E.); 13. Discourse coherence and referent identification of subject ellipsis in Japanese (by Nariyama, Shigeko); 14. Structure of centre of attention in a multi-party conversation in Japanese: Based on the data of a review meeting concerning a Science Cafe held in Hiroshima (by Saijo, Miki); 15. Verbal aspect in Slavic languages between semantics and pragmatics (by Wlodarczyk, Helene); 16. The position in the utterance and the melodic realisation of object and reflexive pronouns in classical modern literary Russian (by Azam, Olivier); 17. Accented and unaccented pronouns in Ancient Greek: A pragmatic choice by the speaker (by Pitavy, Jean-Christophe); 18. Personal subject pronouns and the meta-informative centering of utterances in classical Latin (by Vedrenne-Cloquet, Perrine); 19. Glossary of defined terminology; 20. Index

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