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[M.M.Jocelyne Fernandez-Vest]

Soyez les bienvenus au Séminaire ci-dessous, dispensé cette année en 
anglais, qui commencera

*le jeudi 30 janvier (11h – 13h)**
**au Centre Bièvre, 1, rue Censier, Paris 5e, 3e étage Salle E**
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http://www.univ-paris3.fr/information-structuring-of-spoken-discourse-question-answer-pairs-and-genre--236106.kjsp

  • Abstract
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Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3 —Ecole Doctorale 268 – Séminaire de 
Doctorat 2013-2014 **

*M. M. Jocelyne Fernandez-Vest. C.N.R.S.-LACITO 
m.m.jocelyne.fernandez-vest at vjf.cnrs.fr 
<mailto:m.m.jocelyne.fernandez-vest at vjf.cnrs.fr>*

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*                        Information Structuring of Spoken Discourse : 
Question-Answer Pairs and Genre*

As a follow-up to the previous seminars conducted about « Information 
Structuring, between Typology and Universals », the 2013-2014 Seminar 
will concentrate on dialogic pairs and genre in different languages.

Considering that an ambitious semantics of human language, which lays 
claims towards generalization, should take into account two kinds of 
typologies – 1) discourse typology, based on criteria of genre / context 
/ relations between interlocutors ; 2) language typology, apt to explain 
what kind of resources are mobilized in individual linguistic systems 
for building meaningful constructions – we shall question the relevance 
of Word Order classifications originating in the analysis of « neutral » 
utterances. The demonstration will start from Answers (A) as primary 
elements of Information Structuring. Distinguishing 3 types of As 
(simple / complex / multiple A), one can show that the MCU (Minimal 
Communicative Utterance), a short rhematic A, is frequently in impromptu 
speech the pivot of 2 binary information strategies involving Initial 
and Final Detachments, Theme-Rheme and Rheme-Mneme respectively. With 
examples of Question-Answer pairs borrowed from different discourse 
genres – from everyday conversations to political debates and interviews 
– we will investigate to what extent a typology of these pairs, as 
contextualized utterances of ordinary language, not only permits to 
tackle //context / co-text / sentence combining//, but can challenge the 
traditional Word Order classifications ((SVO, SOV etc.).

Examples will be taken from different language families – Indo-European, 
Finno-Ugric, South-Asian.

*References*, 3 books in press 2014 : M.M.J. Fernandez-Vest, 
/Detachments for Cohesion – Toward an Information Grammar of Oral 
Languages/ ;M.M.J. Fernandez-Vest & R.D. Van Valin Jr (eds.), 
/Information Structure and Spoken Language from a Cross-Linguistic 
Perspective /; M.M.J. Fernandez-Vest & H. Metslang (eds.), /Questions, 
Answers, Information Structuring. A Typological Approach/.

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                 M.M.Jocelyne FERNANDEZ-VEST
                 

		http://lacito.vjf.cnrs.fr/membres/fernandez.htm

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