Kerr2014

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Kerr2014
BibType INCOLLECTION
Key Kerr2014
Author(s) Betsy Kerr
Title Left dislocation in French: Information structure vs. (?) interactional linguistics
Editor(s) Stacey Katz Bourns, Lindsy L. Myers
Tag(s) IL, French
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Year 2014
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Pages 223–240
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DOI 10.1075/pbns.244.11ker
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Howpublished
Book title Perspectives on Linguistic Structure and Context: Studies in Honor of Knud Lambrecht
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Abstract

A number of studies of Left Dislocation (LD) in spoken French within the Interactional Linguistics (IL) framework (de Fornel 1988; Pekarek Doehler 2001; Chevalier 2011b) have been critical of the information-structure analyses of this construction as set forth in Lambrecht (1981, 1994) and Barnes (1985). This discussion attempts to clarify the original information-structure analysis, arguing that the pragmatic definition of LD should be limited to the explicit marking of the sentence-topic and its associated comment. This topic-comment configuration is compatible with a large variety of particular functions with respect to the larger discourse and to speakers’ interactional purposes. Explanatorily useful IL analyses are those that make clear the connection between the topic-comment configuration and the proposed interactional function.

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