Information structuring in discourse / / edited by Anke Holler, Katja Suckow, Israel de la Fuente.

• Superior document: Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface ; 40
• TeilnehmendeR: Suckow, Katja,; Holler, Anke,; Fuente, Israel de la,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : BRILL,, [2020]
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface ; 40.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004436723
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Anke Holler, Katja Suckow, Israel de la Fuente.

A text usually provides more information than a random sequence of clauses: It combines sentence-level information to larger units which are glued together by coherence relations that may induce a hierarchical discourse structure. Since linguists have begun to investigate texts as more complex units of linguistic communication, it has been controversially discussed what the appropriate level of analysis of discourse structure ought to be and what the criteria to identify (minimal) discourse units are. Linguistic structure-and more precisely, the extraction and integration of syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic information-is shown to be at the center of text processing and discourse comprehension. However, its role in the establishment of basic building blocks for a coherent discourse is still a subject of debate. This collection addresses these issues using various methodological approaches. It presents current results in theoretical, diachronic, experimental as well as computational research on structuring information in discourse.