
Title:
Salience : Multidisciplinary Perspectives on its Function in Discourse
Author:
Bexten, Birgitta, contributor.
ISBN:
9783110241020
Physical Description:
1 online resource (282 p.)
Series:
Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 227
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Salience in linguistics and beyond -- Part I. Entity-based salience in discourse -- Demonstratives and salience: Towards a functional taxonomy -- Parenthetical agent-demoting constructions in Eastern Khanty: Discourse salience vis-à-vis referring expressions -- Joint information value of syntactic and semantic prominence for subsequent pronominal reference -- The Mental Salience Framework: Context-adequate generation of referring expressions -- Part II. Beyond entities in discourse -- Discourse-structural salience from a cross-linguistic perspective: Coordination and its contribution to discourse (structure) -- Rhetorical relations and verb placement in Old High German -- Part III. Beyond purely linguistic salience -- Visual salience and the other one -- Salience in hypertext: Multiple preferred centers in a plurilinear discourse environment -- Establishing salience during narrative text comprehension: A simulation view account -- Index
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