Salience : multidisciplinary perspectives on its function in discourse / edited by Christian Chiarcos, Berry Claus, Michael Grabski.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chiarcos, Christian.

Claus, Berry.

Grabski, Michael.

Series:

Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 227.

Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs ; 227

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discourse analysis--Social aspects.

Discourse analysis.

Ideology.

Physical Description:

pages ; cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2011.

Summary:

Arising from the sixth International Workshop on Multidisciplinary Approaches to Discourse (2005: Germany), this volume presents nine contribute essays plus an introduction by the three editors defining salience and discussing its function in linguistics and beyond. The investigation is of interest to scholars of such disciplines as computational linguistics, discourse studies, and psycholinguistics, and this volume presents multidisciplinary perspectives and approaches. A sampling of topics: parenthetical agent-demoting constructions in Eastern Khanty, joint information value of syntactic and semantic prominence for subsequent pronominal reference, rhetorical relations and verb placement in Old High German, visual salience and the other one, and establishing salience during narrative text comprehension, among other topics. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Part I Entity-based salience in discourse

Demonstratives and salience: Towards a functional taxonomy / Olga Krasavina Krasavina, Olga 31

Parenthetical agent-demoting constructions in Eastern Khanty: Discourse Salience vis-à-vis referring expressions / Andrey Y. Filchenko Filchenko, Andrey Y. 57

Joint information value of syntactic and semantic prominence for subsequent pronominal reference / Ralph L. Rose Rose, Ralph L. 81

The Mental Salience Framework: Context-adequate generation of referring expressions / Christian Chiarcos Chiarcos, Christian 105

Part II Beyond entities in discourse

Discourse-structural salience from a cross-linguistic perspective: Coordination and its contribution to discourse (structure) / Wiebke Ramm Ramm, Wiebke 143

Rhetorical relations and verb placement in Old High German / Roland Hinterhölzl Hinterhölzl, Roland, Svetlana Petrova Petrova, Svetlana 173

Part III Beyond purely linguistic salience

Visual salience and the other one / John D. Kelleher Kelleher, John D. 205

Salience in hypertext: Multiple preferred centers in a plurilinear discourse environment / Birgitta Bexten Bexten, Birgitta 229

Establishing salience during narrative text comprehension: A simulation view account / Berry Claus Claus, Berry 251.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783110240726

3110240726

OCLC:

661048245