CHAMONIKOLASOVÁ, Jana. Introducing New Information into the Context of Discourse. In Diversification and its Discontents: Dynamics of the Discipline. 9th Brno International Conference of English, American and Canadian Studies (2010). 2010.
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Original name Introducing New Information into the Context of Discourse
Authors CHAMONIKOLASOVÁ, Jana (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
Edition Diversification and its Discontents: Dynamics of the Discipline. 9th Brno International Conference of English, American and Canadian Studies (2010), 2010.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Presentations at conferences
Field of Study 60200 6.2 Languages and Literature
Country of publisher Czech Republic
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14210/10:00056871
Organization unit Faculty of Arts
Keywords (in Czech) informační struktura; aktuální členění; kontextová zapojenost; bezprostředně relevantní kontext
Keywords in English information structure; functional sentence perspective; context dependence; immediately relevant context
Tags rivok
Tags International impact, Reviewed
Changed by Changed by: doc. PhDr. Jana Chamonikolasová, Ph.D., učo 109. Changed: 15/4/2012 17:40.
Abstract
The introduction of new (context-independent, irretrievable) information into the context of discourse is usually associated with the rheme/focus of a sentence, while the theme/topic is understood as a carrier of old (context-dependent, retrievable) information. Within the concept of the immediately relevant context defined by Firbas and applied by the Brno theory of functional sentence perspective, however, certain types of thematic elements are interpreted as irretrievable, i.e. new. Different carriers of new information (depending on whether they are rhematic or thematic) thus carry different degrees of communicative dynamism and different degrees of prosodic prominence. The paper explores the ways in which new information is introduced into the context of discourse, and analyzes the differences between new information within the theme and new information within the rheme of a sentence.
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