| The Meaning of Topic and Focus: The 59th Street Bridge Accent Contributor(s): Büring, Daniel (Author) |
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ISBN: 041516897X ISBN-13: 9780415168977 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $152.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 1997 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General - Language Arts & Disciplines | Grammar & Punctuation |
| Dewey: 415 |
| LCCN: 97003703 |
| Lexile Measure: 1280 |
| Series: Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.07 lbs) 216 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This study provides an illuminating and ground-breaking account of the complex interaction of intonational phenomena, semantics and pragmatics. Based on examples from German and English, and centred on an analysis of the fall-rise intonation contour, a semantic interpretation for two different pitch accents - Focus and Topic - is developed. The cross-sentence, as well as the sentence internal semantic effects of these accents, follow from the given treatment. The account is based on Montogovian possible world semantics and Chomskian generative syntax. |