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Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2022 07:36:12
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: When Data Challenges Theory: Garassino, Jacob (eds.)

 


Title: When Data Challenges Theory 
Subtitle: Unexpected and paradoxical evidence in information structure 
Series Title: Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 273  

Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/la.273 


Editor: Davide Garassino
Editor: Daniel Jacob

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027258151 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027258151 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027258151 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 99.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027210807 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027210807 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027210807 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 104.94


Abstract:

This volume offers a critical appraisal of the tension between theory and
empirical evidence in research on information structure. 

The relevance of ‘unexpected’ data taken into account in the last decades,
such as the well-known case of non-focalizing cleft sentences in Germanic and
Romance, has increasingly led us to give more weight to explanations involving
inferential reasoning, discourse organization and speakers’ rhetorical
strategies, thus moving away from ‘sentence-based’ perspectives. At the same
time, this shift towards pragmatic complexity has introduced new challenges to
well-established information-structural categories, such as Focus and Topic,
to the point that some scholars nowadays even doubt about their descriptive
and theoretical usefulness. 

This book brings together researchers working in different frameworks and
delving into cross-linguistic as well as language-internal variation and
language contact. Despite their differences, all contributions are committed
to the same underlying goal: appreciating the relation between linguistic
structures and their context based on a firm empirical grounding and on
theoretical models that are able to account for the challenges and richness of
language use.
 



Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Linguistic Theories


Written In: English  (eng)

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