Retrievability and Activation Cost

CHAMONIKOLASOVÁ, Jana. Retrievability and Activation Cost. In 6th Conference of British, American and Canadian Studies (Proceedings). Prešov: Prešovská univerzita, 2000, p. 134-145. ISBN 80-8068-014-0.

Basic information

Original name

Retrievability and Activation Cost

Name in Czech

Vyveditelnost a aktivační cena

Authors

CHAMONIKOLASOVÁ, Jana (203 Czech Republic, guarantor)

Edition

Prešov, 6th Conference of British, American and Canadian Studies (Proceedings), p. 134-145, 2000

Publisher

Prešovská univerzita

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Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Stať ve sborníku

Field of Study

60200 6.2 Languages and Literature

Country of publisher

Slovakia

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/00:00030530

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

ISBN

80-8068-014-0

Keywords in English

Chafe; Firbas; information flow; FSP; activation cost; retrievability;

Tags

activation cost, Chafe, Firbas, FSP, information flow, retrievability

Tags

International impact, Reviewed

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Abstract

V originále

The present paper is a contribution to the study of context in communication. It compares two approaches to the interpretation of given and new information, Jan Firbas's conception of retrievability/irretrievability and Wallace Chafe's conception of activation cost. Both scholars have on several occasions expressed certain reservations concerning some aspects of the other's approach to the analysis of language and defended their own conception (see Chafe 1974:120, 1976:33, 1994:161-164, and Firbas 1987:51-59, 1992:105-107). The aim of the present paper is neither criticism nor defense of either of the two conceptions but rather the localization of potential common ground in the two approaches. The presentation of the two approaches in this paper draws mainly on Firbas's (1992) book Functional sentence perspective in written and spoken communication, Chafe's (1994) book Discourse, Consciousness, and Time; and several papers by the two authors (Firbas 1990, 1995; Chafe 1974, 1976, 1986).

In Czech

Článek srovnává dva přístupy k dichotomii známá/stará informace - nová informace: Firbasovu koncepci vyveditelnosti/nevyveditelnosti a Chafovu koncepci aktivační ceny. Cílem studie je lokalizace rozdílů a společných rysů obou přístupů. Článek se opírá zejména o knihy Jana Firbase "Functional sentence perspective in written and spoken communication" a Wallace Chafa "Discourse, Consciousness, and Time".