Salience multidisciplinary perspectives on its function in discourse (De Gruyter Mouton, 2011)
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Salience refers to the prominence of information; salient items pop out and capture attention. This volume addresses the role of salience in discourse. It illustrates the range of multidisciplinary approaches - their diversities and similarities. The collection of papers covers a variety of research with different foci ranging from discourse entities, to discourse segments, to extra-linguistic factors
pt. 1. Entity-based salience in discourse -- pt. 2. Beyond entities in discourse -- pt. 3. Beyond purely linguistic salience