Salience : : Multidisciplinary Perspectives on its Function in Discourse / / ed. by Christian Chiarcos, Michael Grabski, Berry Claus.
The volume addresses the role of salience in discourse and provides broad coverage of various perspectives on and functions of discourse salience. The range of multidisciplinary approaches adopted in the volume differ with regard to the underlying theoretical proposals and foci of research. The topi...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (282 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: Salience in linguistics and beyond
- Part I. Entity-based salience in discourse
- Demonstratives and salience: Towards a functional taxonomy
- Parenthetical agent-demoting constructions in Eastern Khanty: Discourse salience vis-à-vis referring expressions
- Joint information value of syntactic and semantic prominence for subsequent pronominal reference
- The Mental Salience Framework: Context-adequate generation of referring expressions
- Part II. Beyond entities in discourse
- Discourse-structural salience from a cross-linguistic perspective: Coordination and its contribution to discourse (structure)
- Rhetorical relations and verb placement in Old High German
- Part III. Beyond purely linguistic salience
- Visual salience and the other one
- Salience in hypertext: Multiple preferred centers in a plurilinear discourse environment
- Establishing salience during narrative text comprehension: A simulation view account
- Index