Basic notions of information structure
- This article takes stock of the basic notions of Information Structure (IS). It first provides a general characterization of IS — following Chafe (1976) — within a communicative model of Common Ground(CG), which distinguishes between CG content and CG management. IS is concerned with those features of language that concern the local CG. Second, this paper defines and discusses the notions of Focus (as indicating alternatives) and its various uses, Givenness (as indicating that a denotation is already present in the CG), and Topic (as specifying what a statement is about). It also proposes a new notion, Delimitation, which comprises contrastive topics and frame setters, and indicates that the current conversational move does not entirely satisfy the local communicative needs. It also points out that rhetorical structuring partly belongs to IS.
Author details: | Manfred KrifkaORCiDGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-19603 |
ISBN: | 978-3-939469-88-9 |
ISSN: | 1614-4708 |
ISSN: | 1866-4725 |
Publisher: | Universitätsverlag Potsdam |
Place of publishing: | Potsdam |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Year of first publication: | 2007 |
Publication year: | 2007 |
Publishing institution: | Universität Potsdam |
Release date: | 2008/07/25 |
Tag: | Contrast; Focus; Givenness; Information Structure; Topic |
First page: | 13 |
Last Page: | 55 |
Organizational units: | Zentrale und wissenschaftliche Einrichtungen / Sonderforschungsbereich 632 - Informationsstruktur |
Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Linguistik | |
DDC classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
Collection(s): | Universität Potsdam / Schriftenreihen / Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632, ISSN 1866-4725 / ISIS (2007) 06 |
Publishing method: | Universitätsverlag Potsdam |
Institution name at the time of the publication: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Linguistik / Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft |
License (German): | Keine öffentliche Lizenz: Unter Urheberrechtsschutz |
External remark: | erschienen in: The Notions of information structure / (eds.) Caroline Féry ... - Potsdam : Univ.-Verl., 2007. - 235 S.(Interdisciplinary studies on information structure ; 6)ISSN 1614-4708ISBN 978-3-939469-88-9 URN: urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-15472 --> bestellen |