Salience

by Chiarcos, Christian

• ISBN13: 9783110240726
• ISBN10: 3110240726
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-05-16
• Publisher: Mouton De Gruyter

Summary

Salience refers to the prominence of information; salient items pop out and capture attention. This volume addresses the role of salience in discourse. It illustrates the range of multidisciplinary approaches - their diversities and similarities. The collection of papers covers a variety of research with different foci ranging from discourse entities, to discourse segments, to extra-linguistic factors.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Salience in linguistics and beyond	p. 1
Entity-based salience in discourse
Demonstratives and salience: Towards a functional taxonomy	p. 31
Parenthetical agent-demoting constructions in Eastern Khanty: Discourse Salience vis-à-vis referring expressions	p. 57
Joint information value of syntactic and semantic prominence for subsequent pronominal reference	p. 81
The Mental Salience Framework: Context-adequate generation of referring expressions	p. 105
Beyond entities in discourse
Discourse-structural salience from a cross-linguistic perspective: Coordination and its contribution to discourse (structure)	p. 143
Rhetorical relations and verb placement in Old High German	p. 173
Beyond purely linguistic salience
Visual salience and the other one	p. 205
Salience in hypertext: Multiple preferred centers in a plurilinear discourse environment	p. 229
Establishing salience during narrative text comprehension: A simulation view account	p. 251
Index	p. 279
Language index	p. 279
Index of determinants, manifestations and aspects of salience	p. 279
Subject index	p. 281
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