Tracing the sources of Information Structure: Towards the study of interactional management of information

Citation:

Pavel Ozerov. 2018. “Tracing The Sources Of Information Structure: Towards The Study Of Interactional Management Of Information”. J Pragmat, 138, Pp. 77-97. doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2018.08.017.

Abstract:

Building upon previous literature and insights from natural corpus data, this paper questions the theoretical bases and applicability of Information-Structural categories, such as topic and focus, and proposes an alternative approach to this field. In the proposed framework, so-called “information-structural” phenomena are epiphenomenal effects of diverse linguistic devices, related directly to a broad array of primarily intersubjective, interactional and discourse-structuring aspects of communication and language. The paper presents cross-linguistic data that support this view and proposes the ensuing directions for the systematic study of these phenomena.

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