EAN: 9783110240726

SALIENCE GEBUNDEN

The volume addresses the role of salience in discourse and provides broad coverage of various
perspectives on and functions of discourse salience. The range of multidisciplinary approaches
adopted in the volume differ with regard to the underlying theoretical proposals and foci of
research. The topics range from (i) entity-based salience to (ii) discourse-structural salience
of utterances to (iii) extra-linguistic factors of salience in discourse. Accordingly  the
volume is organized into three sections. Part I focuses on discourse referents and the choice
of referring expressions. The contributions cover issues such as salience and demonstrativity
in Russian  discourse salience and grammatical voice in the West Siberian language Eastern
Khanty  the joined information of syntactic and semantic prominence  and a computational
framework of salience metrics. The contributions to Part II are concerned with linguistic
structures at or above the clause level. The salience of discourse segments is addressed with
respect to the translation of discourse relations and position of verb arguments in Old High
German. Part III extends the scope beyond purely linguistic phenomena and deals with the role
of extra-linguistic salience in discourse processing. Visual salience in a situated-dialog
context  salience marking by hypertextual links  and extra-linguistic salience derived from a
mental representation of the described situation are all discussed here. The notion of salience
is of relevance to discourse studies in theoretical linguistics  computational linguistics  as
well as psycholinguistics.

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