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When data challenges theory : unexpected and paradoxical evidence in information structure / edited by Davide Garassino and Daniel Jacob.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Garassino, Davide.
- Series:
- Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today Ser.
- Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today Ser. ; v.273
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Structural linguistics.
- Systemic grammar.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (315 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2022.
- Summary:
- This volume offers a critical appraisal of the tension between theory and empirical evidence in research on information structure. The relevance of 'unexpected' data taken into account in the last decades, such as the well-known case of non-focalizing cleft sentences in Germanic and Romance, has increasingly led us to give more weight to explanations involving inferential reasoning, discourse organization and speakers' rhetorical strategies, thus moving away from 'sentence-based' perspectives. At the same time, this shift towards pragmatic complexity has introduced new challenges to well-established information-structural categories, such as Focus and Topic, to the point that some scholars nowadays even doubt about their descriptive and theoretical usefulness.
- Contents:
- Introduction: When data challenges theory: The analysis of information structure and its paradoxes
- Part I. Theoretical Studies
- Part II. Case Studies: Experimental and corpus-based perspectives
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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