Discourse and Word Order
Published on 1. January 1987
Book
Hardback
361 pages
978-1-55619-012-4 (ISBN)
Description
Integrating various aspects of human communication traditionally treated in a number of separate disciplines, Olga T. Yokoyama develops a universal model of the smallest unit of informational discourse, and uncovers the regularities that govern the intentional verbal transfer of knowledge from one interlocutor to another. The author then places these processes within a new framework of Communicational Competence, which legitimizes certain nebulous but important linguistic phenomena hitherto caught in a noman's land between the formal and functional approaches to language. Russian word order, a classical problem of Slavic linguistics, is subjected to a rigorous examination within this theoretical framework; Yokoyama demonstrates how this "free word order language" can only be described by taking into account such generally neglected factors as the speakers' subjectivity and attitude. Of particular interest to Slavists is a new generative theory of Russian intonation, which is consistently incorporated into the description of Russian word order.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam/Philadelphia
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
820 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55619-012-4 (9781556190124)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Content
1. Foreword; 2. Part One: A Model of Knowledge Transactions; 3. Chapter 1: Four Sets of Knowledge in Contact; 4. 0. The Minimal Unit of Discourse; 5. 1. Communicable Knowledge; 6. 2. Sharing Knowledge; 7. 3. Two Individuals in Discourse; 8. Chapter 2: The Procedures for Knowledge Transactions; 9. 0. Constraining Subjectivity; 10. 1. Assessment and Acknowledgment; 11. 2. Misassessment; 12. Chapter 3: Discourse-Initial Utterances; 13. 0. Sentences, Illocutionary Acts and Utterances; 14. 1. Directives; 15. 2. Statements; 16. 3. Effusions; 17. 4. Questions; 18. Chapter 4: Non-Discourse-Initial Utterances; 19. 0. Responses; 20. 1. Obligatory Responses; 21. 2. Voluntary Contributions; 22. Chapter 5: Grammar and Pragmatics; 23. 1. The Model: a Summary; 24. 2. Between Grammar and Pragmatics; 25. 3. Communicational Competence; 26. Part Two: Russian word Order; 27. Chapter 6: History and Preliminaries; 28. 1. Word Order Permutations in Linguistic Theory; 29. 2. Russian Intonation and Word Order; 30. Chapter 7: Discourse-Initial Utterances - I: Assessment; 31. 1. Directives; 32. 2. Statements; 33. 3. Questions; 34. 4. Effusions; 35. 5. Summary; 36. Chapter 8: Discourse-Initial Utterances - II: Imposition and Grammatical Relations; 37. 1. Imposition; 38. 2. Grammatical Relations; 39. Chapter 9: Non-Discourse-Initial Utterances; 40. 1. Answers to Questions; 41. 2. Voluntary Contributions Based on Links by Identity; 42. 3. Voluntary Contributions Based on Links by Associated Knowledge; 43. 4. Summary; 44. Conclusion; 45. References; 46. Indexes