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Libro 4 di 66: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics

Lambrecht, Knud

 
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This major contribution to the study of discourse pragmatics investigates the 'information structure' of sentences.

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'It represents the state of the art in functional syntax.' Journal of Linguistics

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Why do languages have so many different ways of expressing the same idea? Professor Lambrecht addresses this question through an investigation of the 'information structure' of sentences. His analysis is based on the observation that the structure of a sentence reflects a speaker's assumptions about the hearer's state of knowledge and consciousness at the time of the utterance.

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