Theme, Comment, and Newness as Figures in Information Structuring

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I. Reference in Discourse
5. Embodied in a Constructed World 5
6. Reference and Working Memory 29
7. Roles, Frames and Definiteness 53
8. The Selection of Definite Expressions in Spanish 75
9. Part II. Information Structuring in Discourse
10. Theme, Comment, and Newness as Figures in Information Structuring 91
11. Cognitive Effects of Shell Nouns 111
12. Part III. Discourse Markers
13. Prosodic Markers of Text Structure 133
14. Accent and Modal Particles 149
15. How Dutch Final Particles Constrain the Construal of Utterances 165
16. Index 185