Meta-informative Centering in Utterances: Between Semantics and Pragmatics
Personal subject pronouns are used as meta-informative markers in classical Latin. Given that they are optional when the utterance contains a personal-ending verb, we put forward the hypothesis that they inherently emphasise the person already involved by the personal ending of the verb. Careful observation of examples taken from Cicero's Correspondence shows that the pronouns ego and tu featured in discourse have a highly important role in the construction of informative coherence, since they …
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- Full title :Meta-informative Centering in Utterances : Between Semantics and Pragmatics.
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Personal subject pronouns are used as meta-informative markers in classical Latin. Given that they are optional when the utterance contains a personal-ending verb, we put forward the hypothesis that they inherently emphasise the person already involved by the personal ending of the verb. Careful observation of examples taken from Cicero's Correspondence shows that the pronouns ego and tu featured in discourse have a highly important role in the construction of informative coherence, since they can be used as topicalisations, but also as focalisations. Moreover, they can be.
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- Publication Date:2013.
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- Publisher(s):John Benjamins Publishing Company
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2013.
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- Description:1 online resource
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- ISBN:1306176085, 9781306176088, 9789027271143, 9027271143
- oclc:ocn864744422
- LC Classification:P326
- Dewey Decimal:401.4
Table of Contents
Meta-informative Centering in Utterances; Editorial page ; Title page ; LCC data ; Table of contents ; Introduction; 1. Information and meta-information; 2. Attention centering; 3. Between semantics and pragmatics; 4. Overview of the contributions to this volume; 4.1 Associative semantics and meta-informative centering; 4.2 Neuropsychological evidence for the MIC theory; 4.3 Meta-informative centering in languages; 4.3.1 Discourse coherence in English and Japanese; 4.3.2 Verbal aspect in Slavic languages between semantics and pragmatics.
4.3.3 Tonic and atonic personal pronouns in modern Russian, classical Greek and LatinReferences; Roles and anchors of semantic situations ; 1. Human communication as a composite partial function; 2. Language and ontology; 2.1 Semantic theory of natural language from the ontological perspective; 2.2 Entities: Agents and figures; 3. Relations, roles and anchors; 3.1 Role component; 3.2 Anchor component; 4. Associative semantics: Examples of analysis; 5. Further research; Frames of semantic situations; 1. The structure of semantic situations; 1.1 Space; 1.2 Time; 1.3 Progression.
1.4 Granularity2. The partial ordering of semantic situations; 2.1 Th…
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