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From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Meta-informative Centering in Utterances: Włodarczyk, Włodarczyk (Eds)

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Title: Meta-informative Centering in Utterances 
Subtitle: Between Semantics and Pragmatics 
Series Title: Studies in Language Companion Series 143  

Publication Year: 2013 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/

Book URL: http://benjamins.com/catalog/slcs.143 

Editor: André Włodarczyk
Editor: Hélène Włodarczyk

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027271143 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027271143 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 99.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027271143 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027206107 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027206107 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027206107 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 104.94

Abstract:

The notion of information has nowadays become crucial both in our daily life
and in many branches of science and technology. In language studies, this
notion was used as a technical term for the first time about at least fifty
years ago. It is argued, however, that "Old" and "New", used traditionally for
characterising information, refer in fact to the meta-informative status of
communicated chunks of information. They provide information about other
information. Since subjects and objects, as attention-driven phrases, are also
related to aboutness, the presented Meta-Informative Centering (MIC) framework
includes predication theory. By applying the MIC theory to their analyses of
English, German, French, Polish, Russian, Greek, Latin, and Japanese, the
authors provide comprehensive explanations of the most puzzling aspects of the
pragmatic use of basic universal linguistic categories. It seems clear now
that canonical syntactic patterns, their permutations, and diverse
transformations do indeed reflect very truly the meta-informative
encapsulation of utterances. As a consequence, this book presents new and
coherent theoretical solutions as well as their very efficient applications.

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Pragmatics
                     Semantics
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     French (fra)
                     German (deu)
                     Greek, Ancient (grc)
                     Japanese (jpn)
                     Latin (lat)
                     Polish (pol)
                     Russian (rus)

Written In: English  (eng)

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