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Description:
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This collection of papers celebrates the work of Jeanette K. Gundel, who
has contributed to the field of the grammar-pragmatics interface through
her publications on the syntactic realization of topic and comment and the
cognitive status of referring expressions, as well as by inspiring
colleagues to make contributions to the overall field of pragmatics. This
volume collects together papers from colleagues and former students on
pragmatics and syntax, pragmatics and reference, and pragmatics and social
variables. The volume includes papers devoted to explicating the
grammar-pragmatics interface, with the focus of the papers ranging from
Gricean and post-Gricean pragmatics, construction grammar, and genre theory
to formal semantics, as well as papers devoted to expanding on Gundel's own
original approach to factors such as the cognitive status decisions
underlying speakers' choice of referring expression and the topic and focus
decisions underlying speakers' choice of syntactic construction.
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