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Topicity vs. thematicity: Topic-prominence in impromptu Spanish discourse

Journal of Pragmatics, 1998
Abstract In spontaneous discourse, speakers of standard Castilian Spanish regularly use ‘pragmatic mode’ rather than ‘grammatical mode’ (Givon, 1979) — i.e., they use less grammatically coded utterances — to signal topics/topic shifts. There is a difference in pragmatic function between the use of these overtly marked topics (cf. Barnes, 1985: 9) and
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Prominence, contrastive focus and information packaging in Ghanaian English discourse

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2014
Contrastive focus refers to the coding of information that is contrary to the presuppositions of the interlocutor. Thus, in everyday speech, speakers employ prominence to mark contrastive focus such that it gives an alternative answer to an explicit or implicit statement provided by the previous discourse or situation (Rooth, 1992), and plays an ...
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Differential object indexing in Bulgarian - The role of discourse prominence and predictability [PDF]

, 2022
In this study, I argue that object reduplication in Bulgarian is a special encoding strategy that is concerned with discourse management and primarily used to mark (perceived) deviances from expectations with respect to the status of referents in discourse.
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Chapter 13Pragmatic markers at the periphery and discourse prominence

Pragmatics and Beyond New Series, 2021
Diana Lewis
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Discourse Prominence and Antecedent Mis-Retrieval during Native and Non-Native Pronoun Resolution

Discours, 2022
Claudia Felser
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Perception of Word-level Prominence in Free Word Order Language Discourse

Language and Speech, 2021
Tatiana Luchkina
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Discourse prominence and agent prominence in the Polish ‑no/‑to construction: Interpretation and referentiality of the implicit subject

This dissertation describes and examines the function of the Polish impersonal ‑no/‑to construction in discourse. In particular, it focuses on the interaction between the core semantic features of the construction and its behavior in larger discourse units.
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The Prominence Value of the Temporal Anchor of Free Indirect Discourse: A Comparison with the Perspectival Center

Discours, 2020
Jakob Egetenmeyer
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Cohesion and Prominence in the Expository Discourse of Colossians

2012
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Sentential and Discourse Prominence: The Case of the Emphatic Pronoun

Russian Linguistics, 1980
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