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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| Language: | English |
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Toronto ; Buffalo ; London :
University of Toronto Press,
2025.
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| Series: | Key concepts in systemic functional linguistics.
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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.