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Information structure and sentence form : topic, focus and the mental representations of discourse referents

Why do speakers of all languages use different grammatical structures under different communicative circumstances to express the same idea? This book explores the relationship between the structure of the sentence & its linguistic context.

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  • "Why do speakers of all languages use different grammatical structures under different communicative circumstances to express the same idea? This book explores the relationship between the structure of the sentence & its linguistic context."@en
  • "Why do speakers of all languages use different grammatical structures under different communicative circumstances to express the same idea? In this comprehensive study, Professor Lambrecht explores the relationship between the structure of sentences and the linguistic and extra-linguistic contexts in which they are used. 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. This relationship between speaker assumptions and formal sentence structure is governed by rules and conventions of grammar, in a component called "information structure." Four independent but interrelated categories are analyzed: presupposition and assertion, identifiability and activation, topic, and focus. Lambrecht reveals that each category correlates directly with structural properties of the sentence."

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  • "Information structure and setence form : topic, focus, and the mental representations of discourse referents"
  • "Information structure and sentence form : topic, focus and the mental representations of discourse referents"@en
  • "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 discouse referents"
  • "Information structure and sentence form topic, focus, and the mental representations of discourse referents"
  • "Information structure and sentence form : topic, focus, and the mental representation of discourse referents"
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  • "Information structure and sentence form : topic, focus, and the mental representations of discourse referents"
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