Information Structure in Spoken English: A Systemic Functional Linguistics View

By: O'Grady, Garard

In a series of publications in the 1960s culminating in the 1967 book Intonation and the Grammar of English and the three articles Notes on Transitivity and Theme, Halliday proposed a system of information structure. Tonic items were presented as New or as if they were not recoverable from the context and cotext. Post tonic items were Given or recoverable. The status of pre-tonic items was ambiguous and needed to be considered in context...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1800504918
• ISBN13: 9781800504912
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Equinox Publishing
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.