Functional Sentence Perspective in Written and Spoken Communication

by Jan Firbas

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521031826
• ISBN13: 9780521031820
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"