LINGUIST List 17.3461

Thu Nov 23 2006

Books: Discourse Analysis: Firbas

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Directory         1.    Joyce Reid, Functional Sentence Perspective in Written and Spoken Communication: Firbas
Message 1: Functional Sentence Perspective in Written and Spoken Communication: Firbas
Date: 15-Nov-2006
From: Joyce Reid <jreidcup.org>
Subject: Functional Sentence Perspective in Written and Spoken Communication: Firbas


Title: Functional Sentence Perspective in Written and Spoken
Communication Series Title: Studies in English Language Published: 2006 Publisher: Cambridge University Press
                http://us.cambridge.org

Author: Jan Firbas Paperback: ISBN: 0521031826 Pages: 255 Price: U.S. $ 39.99
Paperback: ISBN: 0521031826 Pages: 255 Price: U.K. £ 22.99
Abstract:

Inspired by the ideas of the Prague School, the theory of functionalsentence perspective (FSP) is concerned with the distribution ofinformation as determined by all meaningful elements, from intonation (forspeech) to context. A central feature of FSP is communicative dynamism. JanFirbas discusses the distribution of the degrees of communicative dynamismover sentence elements, which determines the orientation or perspective ofthe sentence. He examines also the relation of theme and rheme to, andimplementation by, syntactic components. Special attention is paid to therelation between FSP and word order. The second part of the book deals withspoken communication and considers the place of intonation in the interplayof FSP factors, establishing the concept of prosodic prominence. It tacklesthe relationship between the distribution of degrees of communicativedynamism as determined by the interplay of the non-prosodic FSP factors andthe distribution of degrees of prosodic prominence as brought about byintonation.

Preface;List of abbreviations;Part I. Functional Sentence Perspective in Written Communication:1. Introduction;2. The sentence and the carriers of communicative dynamism;3. The contextual factor;4. The semantic factor;5. The theme and the non-theme;6. Some special issues of the theory of functional sentence perspective;7. Word order and functional sentence perspective;Part II. Functional Sentence Perspective in Spoken Communication;8. Non-prosodic distribution of degrees of communicative dynamism anddegrees of prosodic prominence;9. Some more observations on the relationship between the non-prosodicdistribution of communicative dynamism and that of prosodic prominence;10. Analyses of two spoken texts;11. Some special issues concerning functional sentence perspective in thespoken language;References;Index.


Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
Subject Language(s): English (eng)
Written In: English (eng )

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