Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1 The complex nature of contrast -- Part I: Contrast versus topic and focus -- 2 Experimental testing of focus fronting in British English -- 3 Contrast and left dislocations: Contrastive discourse relations beyond contrastive topics -- 4 Contrast and topics: An enquiry into Hindi particle -to -- Part II: Different types of contrast -- 5 Mirativity, obviousness, and reversal as instances of contrast on different levels of meaning: Evidence from Spanish intonation -- 6 Contrast via information structure: On topic development with German aber in post-initial position -- 7 Definition of contrast in spoken and signed data: An overview -- Part III: Analyzing contrast using the Question Under Discussion model -- 8 Contrast in a QUD-based informationstructure model -- 9 Contrast, concession, and QUD-trees -- Subject index