The Meaning of Topic and Focus
副标题: The 59th Street Bridge Accent (Routledge Studies in German Linguistics, 3)
ISBN: 9780415168977
出版社: Routledge
出版年: 1997-11-06
页数: 216
定价: USD 155.00
装帧: Hardcover
内容简介
Daniel Buring's study provides an illuminating and ground-breaking account of the complex interaction of intonational phenomena, semantics and pragmatics. Based on examples from German and English, and centered on an analysis of the fall-rise intonation contour, a semantic interpretation for two different pitch accents--Focus and Topic--is developed. The account is based on Montagovian possible world semantics and Chomskian generative syntax. The cross-sentence, as well as the sentence internal semantic effects of these accents, follow from the given treatment.