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Ozerov, Pavel. 2018. Tracing the sources of Information Structure: Towards the study of interactional management of information. Journal of Pragmatics 138 : 77–97.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Elsevier

Annotation

General definitions of Information-Structural (IS) categories (topic, focus) imply circular methodology. IS-categories are epiphenomenal effects of heterogenous linguistic devices. Various intersubjective, interactional and grammatical categories prompt IS-readings. Case studies from English, Hebrew, Burmese and Quechua show this diversity. The paper presents a bottom-up approach to IS as typology of categories that set off various interpretations.