Functional Sentence Perspective in Written and Spoken Communication
Series: Studies in English Language;
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 25 June 1992
- ISBN 9780521373081
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 237x158x23 mm
- Weight 540 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 10 tables 0
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Short description:
Jan Firbas discusses the key phenomenon of communicative dynamism.
MoreLong description:
Inspired by the ideas of the Prague School, the theory of functional sentence perspective (FSP) is concerned with the distribution of information as determined by all meaningful elements, from intonation (for speech) to context. A central feature of FSP is communicative dynamism. Jan Firbas discusses the distribution of the degrees of communicative dynamism over sentence elements, which determines the orientation or perspective of the sentence. He examines also the relation of theme and rheme to, and implementation by, syntactic components. Special attention is paid to the relation between FSP and word order. The second part of the book deals with spoken communication and considers the place of intonation in the interplay of FSP factors, establishing the concept of prosodic prominence. It tackles the relationship between the distribution of degrees of communicative dynamism as determined by the interplay of the non-prosodic FSP factors and the distribution of degrees of prosodic prominence as brought about by intonation.
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Preface; List of abbreviations; Part I. Functional Sentence Perspective in Written Communication: 1. Introduction; 2. The sentence and the carriers of communicative dynamism; 3. The contextual factor; 4. The semantic factor; 5. The theme and the non-theme; 6. Some special issues of the theory of functional sentence perspective; 7. Word order and functional sentence perspective; Part II. Functional Sentence Perspective in Spoken Communication; 8. Non-prosodic distribution of degrees of communicative dynamism and degrees of prosodic prominence; 9. Some more observations on the relationship between the non-prosodic distribution of communicative dynamism and that of prosodic prominence; 10. Analyses of two spoken texts; 11. Some special issues concerning functional sentence perspective in the spoken language; References; Index.
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