Discourse and word order / Olga T. Yokoyama.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yokoyama, Olga Tsuneko.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond companion series ; 6.

Pragmatics & beyond companion series ; 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discourse analysis.

Speech acts (Linguistics).

Pragmatics.

Communicative competence.

Russian language--Word order.

Russian language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (373 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1986.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Integrating various aspects of human communication traditionally treated in a number of separate disciplines, Olga T. Yokoyama develops a universal model of the smallest unit of informational discourse, and uncovers the regularities that govern the intentional verbal transfer of knowledge from one interlocutor to another. The author then places these processes within a new framework of Communicational Competence, which legitimizes certain nebulous but important linguistic phenomena hitherto caught in a noman's land between the formal and functional approaches to language. Russian word order, a

Contents:

DISCOURSE AND WORD ORDER; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; FOREWORD; PART ONE. A MODEL OF KNOWLEDGE TRANSACTIONS; CHAPTER ONE. FOUR SETS OF KNOWLEDGE IN CONTACT; 0. The Minimal Unit of Discourse; 1. Communicable Knowledge; 1.1 Seven kinds of knowledge; 1.2 The relationship between different kinds of knowledge; 2. Sharing Knowledge; 3. Two Individuals in Discourse; NOTES TO CHAPTER 1; CHAPTER TWO. THE PROCEDURES FOR KNOWLEDGE TRANSACTIONS; 0. Constraining Subjectivity; 1. Assessment and Acknowledgment; 1.1 Assessment; 1.2. Acknowledgment; 2. Misassessment

2.1. Assessment errors and adjustment2.2. Imposition and acceptance; 2.3. Assessment and context; NOTES TO CHAPTER 2; CHAPTER THREE. DISCOURSE-INITIAL UTTERANCES; 0. Sentences, Illocutionary Acts, and Utterances; 1. Directives; 2. Statements; 2.1 Propositional statements; 2.2 Specificational statemenss; 2.4 Predicational statemenss; 2.5 Referential statemenss; 2.6 Metinformaiionls statements; 2.7 Summary of statements; 3. Effusions; 3.1 Impositional effusions; 3.2 Non-impositional effusions; 3.3 Summary of effusions; 4. Questions; 4.1 Specificational quesiions; 4.2 Propositional questioss

4.3 Referential quesiions4.4 Existential quesiions; 4.5 Predicational quesiions; 4.6 Metinformational questions; 4.7 Summary of questions; NOTES TO CHAPTER 3; CHAPTER FOUR. NON-DISCOURSE-INITIAL UTTERANCES; 0. Responses; 1. Obligatory Responses; 1.1 Answert to questions; 1.2 Acknowledgment; 1.3 Adjustment; 2. Voluntary Contributions; NOTES TO CHAPTER 4; CHAPTER FIVE. GRAMMAR AND PRAGMATICS; 1. The Model: a Summary; 2. Between grammar and pragmatics; 2.1 Deaccentuation of nouns; 2.2 Compatibility of indefinite subjects and stative predicates; 3. Communicational Competence; NOTES TO CHAPTER 5

PART TWO. RUSSIAN WORD ORDERCHAPTER SIX. HISTORY AND PRELIMINARIES; 1. Word Order Permutations in Linguistic Theory; 2. Russian Intonation and Word Order; 2.1 The problem; 2.2. An outline of Russian intonation; 2.2.1 Utterance intonation ""Type I""; 2.2.2 Utterance intonation ""Type II""; 2.2.3 Intonation types and word order; NOTES TO CHAPTER 6; CHAPTER SEVEN. DISCOURSE-INITIAL UTTERANCES - I: ASSESSMENT; 1. Directives; 1.1 First person direciives; 1.2 Second person direciives; 1.3 Third person direciives; 2. Statements; 2.1 Propositional statements

2.2 Referential statements and statements about the CODE2.3 Existential and predicational statements; 3. Questions; 3.1 Specificational quesiions; 3.2 Propositional questioss; 3.3 Rererential and CODE questions; 3.4 Existential and predicaiional questioss; 4. Effusions; 5. Summary; NOTES TO CHAPTER 7; CHAPTER EIGHT DISCOURSE-INITIAL UTTERANCES - II: IMPOSITION AND GRAMMATICAL RELATIONS; 1. Imposition; 1.1 Personal Empathy: Imposition of referential knowledge; 1.2 Imposition of propositional knowledge; 2. Grammatical Relations; 2.1 Tee terms: their semantic roles, case, and animacy

2.1.1 Unspecified propositionls statements

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliography and indexes.

ISBN:

1-283-35889-1

9786613358899

90-272-7889-X

OCLC:

778617863