Chapter 4. Inferrability, discourse-boundness, and sub-topics

Hannay, Mike

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“…(`Stanford Hall, Lutterworth, Leicestershire', 1995) In accordance with Dik (1989) and Hannay (1985), we will use the term introductory topic to refer to those topical entities that are introduced for the ®rst time in the discourse. The introductory topic is a new referent whose main function is to activate an entity which is to become a potential topic in the following text (Hannay 1985). Two characteristics should therefore be attributed to this notion: its new and presentational character on the one hand, and its high level of persistence in the discourse (GivoÂ n 1983; Hengeveld 1997b) on the other.…”

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“…The peaceful drawing rooms with their lovely portraits and elegant furniture overlook the park _ All [superordinate topic] engenders the atmosphere of one's ideal of an English country house _ . (`Stanford Hall, Lutterworth, Leicestershire', 1995) In accordance with Dik (1989) and Hannay (1985), we will use the term introductory topic to refer to those topical entities that are introduced for the ®rst time in the discourse. The introductory topic is a new referent whose main function is to activate an entity which is to become a potential topic in the following text (Hannay 1985).…”

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Points of departure in news items and tourist brochures: Choices of theme and topic

Guijarro¹,

Hernández²

2001

Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse

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This article will attempt to study the dierences in the thematic/topical progression of two subgenres, news items and tourist brochures. The general hypothesis proposed for this research is that the news items and tourist brochures should, according to the characteristics of genre and register, show a signi®cant dierence in the location of the topical elements in the clause structure and in their topical and thematic organization.

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Points of departure in news items and tourist brochures: Choices of theme and topic

Guijarro¹,

Hernández²

2001

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“…Sobre el tópico del discurso y el tópico de la oración véase Reinhart 1982. Sobre el concepto de subtópico y su relación con el de tópico véanse, entre otros, Prince 1981, Hannay 1985y Dubois 1987para el griego, véase Revuelta 2006para el griego, véase Revuelta , pp. 264 ss.…”

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Los adverbios conjuntivos en griego antiguo. Análisis de ἅμα en Homero, Platón y Jenofonte

Conti¹

2012

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En las lenguas indoeuropeas modernas algunos adverbios presentan un uso conjuntivo, es decir, un uso de carácter conector en el que explicitan el vín-culo semántico y pragmático existente entre dos o más elementos, con frecuencia coordinados entre sí. Aunque en griego antiguo este punto apenas ha sido abordado hasta ahora, la aproximación a algunos adverbios permite observar en ellos un uso conjuntivo muy similar al que muestran las lenguas indoeuropeas modernas. En este trabajo se estudia el adverbio ἅμα en Homero, Platón y Jenofonte con el objetivo de determinar su posible uso conjuntivo y contrastarlo con su uso como adverbio de simultaneidad. El análisis en los autores seleccionados permite concluir que ἅμα presenta un uso conjuntivo en todos ellos. Este uso, en el que ἅμα tiene un valor aditivo, se limita en Homero al sintagma, pero se extiende en Platón y Jenofonte a unidades sintácticas mayores.Palabras clave: adverbios; adverbios conjuntivos; elementos aditivos; expresión de simultaneidad; sintagma; oración; discurso.In modern Indoeuropean languages some adverbs are used as conjunctives, i.e., as a connector in which the semantic and pragmatic links between two or more elements, often coordinated, are explicited. Although this has hardly been addressed in ancient Greek so far, close analysis of some adverbs shows signs of a conjunctive usage in a very similar way as in modern Indoeuropean languages. In this paper we study the adverb ἅμα in Homer, Plato and Xenophon in order to determine its potential conjunctive usage and compare it with its usage as an adverb of simultaneity. Analysis of the selected authors leads to the conclusion that ἅμα is used as a conjunctive adverb in all of them. This usage, in which ἅμα has an additive value, is restricted in Homer to the syntagma, but extends in Plato and Xenophon to larger syntactic units.Keywords: adverbs; conjunctive adverbs; additive elements; expression of simultaneity; syntagma; sentence; discourse. * El presente trabajo ha sido realizado en el marco del Proyecto «Los adverbios conjuntivos en la épica arcaica y en ático clásico: un capítulo desatendido de la gramática griega» (FFI2009-13908-C03-01). Muchos son los amigos y los compañeros que me han ayudado con sus observaciones y comentarios: C. Conti, E. Crespo, J. L. García Ramón, H. Hettrich, L. Macía, R. Martínez Vázquez, E. Redondo, E. Ruiz Yamuza, L. Unceta y S. ziegler. A todos ellos quiero dar aquí las gracias. i. introdUcciónEn griego antiguo los adverbios constituyen una clase de palabras de difícil análisis, dada su variedad formal, funcional y semántica. En general, se consideran adverbios prototípicos aquellos que funcionan como complemento del predicado 1 y que presentan un significado nocional 2 . Además de un uso como complemento del predicado (1), algunos de estos adverbios documentan también un uso como modificador (2) y como complemento del núcleo de un sintagma nominal, adjetival o preposicional (3):(1) ὀρθῶς γάρ ἐστι τῶν νέων πρῶτον ἐπιμεληθῆναι (Pl., Euthphr. 2d).Lo correcto es pre...

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“…She also offers a cursory description of the corpora analysed and justifies the essentially functional and conversational orientation of her work. Specifically, the author (TEH: 29-31) claims to adopt the general principles of Functional Grammar (Dik 1989(Dik , 1997Hannay 1985Hannay , 1991 together with: (i) Givón's (1976Givón's ( , 1983Givón's ( , 1995 reflections on the grammaticalisation of the function of Topic and topicality; (ii) Prince's (1981a) taxonomy of information; and (iii) the principles of conversation analysis as presented by Levinson (1983), Sacks, Schegloff and Jefferson (1974), and Schegloff (1979).…”

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Review of Downing (2003): Tematización en el español hablado

González¹

2005

SiC

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Early studies in thematisation -most commonly dubbed "left-dislocation" or "left detachment" -focused on the semantic and formal aspects of the construction (see, for example, Rodman 1974; Ross 1967). Subsequent investigations, however, explored its functional load and informational make-up across different languages and text types, producing diverse and occasionally contradictory results (see, for example, in English, Despite its frequency, especially in spoken language, thematisation in Spanish has received comparatively little attention, with most studies concentrating on focality but giving disparate accounts of the informative and discourse implications of the construction, whether approached from formal (D'Bearing this situation in mind, Hidalgo Downing's (2003) book, Tematización en el español hablado (TEH henceforth), is really welcome, for it offers a perspicuous investigation that attains the goals it sets for itself (TEH: 25-26): (i) to define and delimit the functional and formal features of thematisation, as in, Ese hombre, ¿es amigo tuyo? (TEH: 10) in natural spoken Spanish, based on evidence provided by two corpora, Corpus oral de referencia del español contemporáneo and El habla culta de la ciudad de Madrid; (ii) to determine the informative dimension of the construction, that is, to assess the informative status of the thematised constituent; and (iii) simultaneously, to evaluate its interactive dimension, or its involvement in Theme (dis)continuity strategies and turn-taking systems, and their side-effects in conversational coherence (cf. Goutsos 1997).TEH is composed of six chapters: the first three provide the theoretical framework for the study, while the remaining three present the findings of the investigation.

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Chapter 4. Inferrability, discourse-boundness, and sub-topics

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Points of departure in news items and tourist brochures: Choices of theme and topic

Points of departure in news items and tourist brochures: Choices of theme and topic

Los adverbios conjuntivos en griego antiguo. Análisis de ἅμα en Homero, Platón y Jenofonte

Review of Downing (2003): Tematización en el español hablado

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