Information structuring in discourse
By: edited by Anke Holler, Katja Suckow, Israel de la Fuente
Series: Current research in the semantics/pragmatics interface -- volume 40; Current research in the semantics/pragmatics interface -- v. 40
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9789004436718; 9789004436725
Subjects: Discourse analysis; Congresses; Discourse markers; Comparative Semantics; Comparative and general Grammar; Syntax; Pragmatics
Description: "Two questions lie at the core of current research into discourse structuring: what is the appropriate level of analysis for discourse segmentation and what are the criteria for the identification of basic units in discourse. Linguistic structure - and more precisely, the extraction and integration of syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic information - has shown to be at the center of discourse comprehension. However, its role in the establishment of basic building blocks for a coherent discourse is still a subject to debate. This collection presents current work on theoretical, diachronic, cross-linguistic, as well as experimental research into the identification and marking of discourse units, and into how discourse coherence can be brought about by the basic building blocks of discourse. Contributors are Markus Bader, Peter Bourgonje, Marco Coniglio, Claudia Felser, Cassandra Freiberg, Liliane Haegeman, Roland Hinterhölzl, Katja Jasinskaja, Umut Özge, Clare Patterson, Yvonne Portele, Claudia Poschmann, Manfred Stede and Klaus von Heusinger"--
Notes: Papers presented at the workshop, "Information Structuring in Discourse", held in 2017 at the 39th Annual Conference of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS) in Saarbrücken (Germany).

Includes bibliographical references.