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Information Structure in Lesser-described Languages: Studies in prosody and syntax
Edited by Evangelia Adamou, Katharina Haude and Martine Vanhove
[Studies in Language Companion Series 199] 2018
► pp. 360–402

Chapter 13
The illocutionary basis of information structure

The Language into Act Theory (L-AcT)

| LABLITA - University of Florence
| LABLITA - University of Florence

The paper briefly presents the Language into Act Theory (L-AcT) that relies on two primary assumptions: (a) the pragmatic basis of Information Structure (IS); (b) a strict correspondence between prosodic units and information units. The study of IS requires the identification of the proper reference unit for speech, that according to L-AcT is the utterance. Utterance is defined as the counterpart of a speech act (Austin 1962), and is demarcated by prosody in the flow of speech. The paper demonstrates the pragmatic foundation of IS. The Comment information unit conveys the illocutionary force, automatically expressing the new information and is the core of IS. In addition to the Topic-Comment relation, other information units exist, corresponding to Textual and Dialogical Functions. Given that information units match in one-to-one way to prosodic units, the prosodic annotation grounds the identification of information units in the flow of speech. The paper demonstrates L-AcT’s assumptions through examples taken from spontaneous spoken corpora of Romance languages, English, and Chinese. L-AcT appears therefore viable for application in large, corpus-based, typological studies.

Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.The Reference unit for speech
    • 2.1The prosodic identification of speech reference units
    • 2.2The perceptual relevance of terminal prosodic breaks
    • 2.3The utterance identification across languages
  • 3.The language into act theory
    • 3.1The pragmatic foundation of Information Pattern
    • 3.2The Comment unit and the relation prosody / illocutionary force
  • 4.The information pattern
    • 4.1The topic
    • 4.2The other textual units
    • 4.3Dialogic units
  • 5.L-AcT in practice
  • 6.Conclusions
  • Notes
  • References
  • Web sites
Published online: 2 August 2018
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https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.199.13cre
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