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Loock, Rudy. 2013. Extending further and refining Prince’s taxonomy of given/new information: A case study of non-restrictive, relevance-oriented structures. Pragmatics 23 (1) : 69–91.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
International Pragmatics Association
Journal DOI
10.1075/prag

Annotation

This paper extends Prince’s discourse-and assumed familiarity-related newness versus givenness taxonomy with a new, justified category of '(hearer) indeterminables’, and proposes incorporation of informational status simulation for politeness reasons in the assumed familiarity definition.