Meta-informative centering in utterances : between semantics and pragmatics / edited by Andre Wlodarczyk, Helene Wlodarczyk.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wlodarczyk, André.

Wlodarczyk, Hélène.

Series:

Studies in Language Companion Series

Studies in language companion series

Studies in Language Companion Series ; 143

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages.

Pragmatics.

Semantics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (324 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Personal subject pronouns are used as meta-informative markers in classical Latin. Given that they are optional when the utterance contains a personal-ending verb, we put forward the hypothesis that they inherently emphasise the person already involved by the personal ending of the verb. Careful observation of examples taken from Cicero's Correspondence shows that the pronouns ego and tu featured in discourse have a highly important role in the construction of informative coherence, since they can be used as topicalisations, but also as focalisations. Moreover, they can be

Contents:

Meta-informative Centering in Utterances; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Introduction; 1. Information and meta-information; 2. Attention centering; 3. Between semantics and pragmatics; 4. Overview of the contributions to this volume; 4.1 Associative semantics and meta-informative centering; 4.2 Neuropsychological evidence for the MIC theory; 4.3 Meta-informative centering in languages; 4.3.1 Discourse coherence in English and Japanese; 4.3.2 Verbal aspect in Slavic languages between semantics and pragmatics

4.3.3 Tonic and atonic personal pronouns in modern Russian, classical Greek and LatinReferences; Roles and anchors of semantic situations; 1. Human communication as a composite partial function; 2. Language and ontology; 2.1 Semantic theory of natural language from the ontological perspective; 2.2 Entities: Agents and figures; 3. Relations, roles and anchors; 3.1 Role component; 3.2 Anchor component; 4. Associative semantics: Examples of analysis; 5. Further research; Frames of semantic situations; 1. The structure of semantic situations; 1.1 Space; 1.2 Time; 1.3 Progression; 1.4 Granularity

2. The partial ordering of semantic situations2.1 The hierarchy of types of situation; 2.2 The situation frames model; 3. Examples of types of semantic situations; 3.1 States; 3.2 Events; 3.3 Ordinary processes; 3.4 Refined rocessses; 4. Representations and formalisation; 4.1 Semantic situations and Petri nets; 4.2 Semantic situations and "event structures and the structures of configuration of events"; References; grounding of the meta-informativestatus of utterances; 1. Introduction; 2. Information and meta-information

3. Oldness and newness revisited: The meta-informative status of utterances4. Grounding of the meta-informative old/new status; 5. Information centering structure; 6. Aboutness and agentivity; 7. Conclusion; Acknowledgment; References; Attention-centered information in language; 1. Introduction; 2. Centres of Attention and Attention-Driven Phrases; 3. Attention-Driven Phrases (ADP) in Base and Extended Utterances; 3.1 Attention-Driven phrases of base utterances: Subject and object; 3.2 Attention-Driven Phrases of extended utterances: Topic and focus

3.3 Interpreting a noun phrase as subject or object3.4 Subject of passive utterances compared with topicalised Object of active utterances; 4. Subject in Different Types of Languages; 4.1 Subject and category of person: Explicit subject; 4.2 Implicit subject; 4.3 Implicit Subject and Topic; 4.4 Topic prominency and subject prominency; 4.5 Anonymous Subject; 4.6 Interpreting topicalised objects in active impersonal utterances (with an anonymous subject); 5. Word-order as a meta-informative marker; 6. Conclusion; Acknowledgement; Abreviations; References

Semantic and episodic memory by reference to the ontological grounding of the old and new meta-informative status

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF (ebrary, viewed December 30, 2013).

ISBN:

9789027271143

9027271143

OCLC:

864744422