Kerr2014
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| BibType | INCOLLECTION |
| Key | Kerr2014 |
| Author(s) | Betsy Kerr |
| Title | Left dislocation in French: Information structure vs. (?) interactional linguistics |
| Editor(s) | S. Katz Bourns, L.L. Myers |
| Tag(s) | IL, French |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Pages | 223-240 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1075/pbns.244.11ker |
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| 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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