Discourse and Word Order

Author

Olga T. Yokoyama | Harvard University

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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.

[Pragmatics & Beyond Companion Series, 6] 1987. xii, 361 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/pbcs.6

Table of Contents

Foreword | p. ix

Part One: A Model of Knowledge Transactions

Chapter 1: Four Sets of Knowledge in Contact | p. 3

0. The Minimal Unit of Discourse
1. Communicable Knowledge
2. Sharing Knowledge
3. Two Individuals in Discourse

Chapter 2: The Procedures for Knowledge Transactions | p. 43

0. Constraining Subjectivity
1. Assessment and Acknowledgment
2. Misassessment

Chapter 3: Discourse-Initial Utterances | p. 73

0. Sentences, Illocutionary Acts and Utterances
1. Directives
2. Statements
3. Effusions
4. Questions

Chapter 4: Non-Discourse-Initial Utterances | p. 119

0. Responses
1. Obligatory Responses
2. Voluntary Contributions

Chapter 5: Grammar and Pragmatics | p. 141

1. The Model: a Summary
2. Between Grammar and Pragmatics
3. Communicational Competence
Part Two: Russian word Order

Chapter 6: History and Preliminaries | p. 173

1. Word Order Permutations in Linguistic Theory
2. Russian Intonation and Word Order

Chapter 7: Discourse-Initial Utterances - I: Assessment | p. 205

1. Directives
2. Statements
3. Questions
4. Effusions
5. Summary

Chapter 8: Discourse-Initial Utterances - II: Imposition and Grammatical Relations | p. 253

1. Imposition
2. Grammatical Relations

Chapter 9: Non-Discourse-Initial Utterances | p. 297

1. Answers to Questions
2. Voluntary Contributions Based on Links by Identity
3. Voluntary Contributions Based on Links by Associated Knowledge
4. Summary

Conclusion | p. 331

Indexes | p. 355

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