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Record Nr.

UNINA9910961794903321

Autore

Gomez-Gonzalez Maria A

Titolo

The theme-topic interface : evidence from English / / Maria Angeles Gomez-Gonzalez

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2001

ISBN

9786612163203

9781282163201

1282163205

9789027299000

9027299005

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xxiv, 434 p. : ill

Collana

Pragmatics & beyond, , 0922-842X ; ; new ser. 71

Classificazione

HF 180

Disciplina

425

Soggetti

English language - Topic and comment

English language - Discourse analysis

English language - Grammar, Generative

English language - Sentences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [381]-424) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

THE THEME -TOPIC INTERFACE -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. An Evaluation of Three Interpretations of Communicative Categories -- Chapter 3. The Prague School -- Chapter 4. Systemic Functional Grammar -- Chapter 5. Functional Grammar -- Chapter 6. Theory and Methods -- Chapter 7. Results and Discussion -- Chapter 8. Summary, Conclusions and Further Research -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Name Index -- Subject Index -- PRAGMATICS AND BEYOND NEW SERIES.

Sommario/riassunto

The Theme-Topic Interface (TTI) gives a useful catalogue of approaches to the concept Theme in the analysis of Natural Language. The book is written with both theoretical and descriptive goals and aims to synthesize andrevise current approaches to pragmatic functions. In addition, TTI explains that different thematic constructions in natural language reveal different discourse strategies related to point of view and speaker subjectivity, which shows the mutually supportive role of



form and discourse function vis-รก-vis each other. The book's value is enhanced by the use of natural language corpora, the Lancaster IBM Spoken English Corpus (LIBMSEC), and by running multivariate statistical tests, taking into account both segmental and suprasegmental features. The bibliography lists more than 600 publications providing ample material for further research into an integrated theory of language and its use. The indexes provide easy access to most authors mentioned and to the major concepts covered.