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"Integrating vaious aspects of human communication traditionally treated in a number of separate disciplines, the author develops a universal model of the smallest unit of informational discouse and uncovers the regularities that govern the intentional verbal transfer of knowledge from one interlocuter to another. She then places these processes within a new framework of ""communications competence"", which legitimizes certain nebulous but important linguistic phenomena hitherto caught in a no-man's land between the formal and functional approaches to language. Russian word order, a classical problem of Slavic linguists, is subject to a rigorous examination within this theoretical framework. Yokoyama demonstrates how this ""free word order language"" can only be described by taking into account such generally neglected factors as the speaker's subjectivity and attitude. Of particular interest to Slavists is a new generative theory of Russian intonation, which is consistently incorporated into the description of Russian word order."

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Author:   Olga T. Yokoyama (Harvard University)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   6
Weight:   0.820kg
ISBN:  

9789027250070

ISBN 10:   9027250073
Pages:   361
Publication Date:   01 January 1987
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Foreword; 2. Part One: A Model of Knowledge Transactions; 3. Chapter 1: Four Sets of Knowledge in Contact; 4. 0. The Minimal Unit of Discourse; 5. 1. Communicable Knowledge; 6. 2. Sharing Knowledge; 7. 3. Two Individuals in Discourse; 8. Chapter 2: The Procedures for Knowledge Transactions; 9. 0. Constraining Subjectivity; 10. 1. Assessment and Acknowledgment; 11. 2. Misassessment; 12. Chapter 3: Discourse-Initial Utterances; 13. 0. Sentences, Illocutionary Acts and Utterances; 14. 1. Directives; 15. 2. Statements; 16. 3. Effusions; 17. 4. Questions; 18. Chapter 4: Non-Discourse-Initial Utterances; 19. 0. Responses; 20. 1. Obligatory Responses; 21. 2. Voluntary Contributions; 22. Chapter 5: Grammar and Pragmatics; 23. 1. The Model: a Summary; 24. 2. Between Grammar and Pragmatics; 25. 3. Communicational Competence; 26. Part Two: Russian word Order; 27. Chapter 6: History and Preliminaries; 28. 1. Word Order Permutations in Linguistic Theory; 29. 2. Russian Intonation and Word Order; 30. Chapter 7: Discourse-Initial Utterances - I: Assessment; 31. 1. Directives; 32. 2. Statements; 33. 3. Questions; 34. 4. Effusions; 35. 5. Summary; 36. Chapter 8: Discourse-Initial Utterances - II: Imposition and Grammatical Relations; 37. 1. Imposition; 38. 2. Grammatical Relations; 39. Chapter 9: Non-Discourse-Initial Utterances; 40. 1. Answers to Questions; 41. 2. Voluntary Contributions Based on Links by Identity; 42. 3. Voluntary Contributions Based on Links by Associated Knowledge; 43. 4. Summary; 44. Conclusion; 45. References; 46. Indexes

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