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Zielinska, Dorota. 1997. A Note on the Extended Functional Analysis. Journal of Pragmatics 27 (6) : 841–843. 3 pp.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
context | lexical meaning | prague school | sentence meaning | sentence, comprehension of | topic vs. comment, comprehension of
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166
Journal WWW
www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

It is contended that the division of sentence meaning into topic and comment also holds for lexical meaning. Furthermore, it is argued that context, and not always linguistic context, provides the topic. As such, sentence comprehension is dependent on retrieving the topic from the context.