The Meaning of Topic and Focus : The 59th Street Bridge Accent

by Daniel Buring

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Format Hardback or Cased Book

Book Series Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics

ISBN-10 041516897X

ISBN-13 9780415168977

Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd

Imprint Routledge

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Oct 9th, 1997

Print length 216 Pages

Weight 560 grams

Product Classification: Semantics, discourse analysis, etc Phonetics, phonology

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Based on examples from German and English, this study provides an illuminating and ground-breaking account of the complex interaction of intonational phenomena, semantics and pragmatics.

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.

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