Information structure in spoken English : a systemic functional linguistics view /

"In a series of publications in the 1960s culminating in the 1967 book Intonation and the Grammar of English and the three articles Notes on Transitivity and Theme, Halliday proposed a system of information structure. Tonic items were presented as New or as if they were not recoverable from the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: O'Grady, Gerard (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2025.
Series:Key concepts in systemic functional linguistics.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • An outline of a theory on information structure
  • Theme and topic: What they are, what they do
  • The Prosodic realization of given and new information
  • Is information binary?
  • From initial to target state: The dynamic unfolding of propositions
  • Information structure in the wild.