Communicative organization in natural language the semantic-communicative structure of sentences - Melʹčuk, Igorʹ A., (Igorʹ Aleksandrovič) (J. Benjamins, 2001)
Other title information on cover: Observatory of meaning text linguistics
Includes bibliographical references (pages 366-380) and indexes
Communicative Organization in Natural Language; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Contents; Introduction: Six Basic Questions Answered; Chapter I. General Characterization of the Semantic-Communicative Structure of Sentences; Chapter II. Basic Categories of Semantic-Communicative Structure; Chapter III. Sem-Comm-Oppositions: Linguistic Comments and Illustrations; Bibliography; Subject Index; Name Index; Language Index; The STUDIES IN LANGUAGE COMPANION SERIES (SLCS)
The book defines the concept of Semantic-Communicative Structure [= Sem-CommS]-a formal object that is imposed on the starting Semantic Structure [= SemS] of a sentence (under text synthesis) in order to turn the selected meaning into a linguistic message. The Sem-CommS is a system of eight logically independent oppositions: 1. Thematicity (Rheme vs. Theme), 2. Givenness (Given vs. Old), 3. Focalization (Focalized vs. Non-Focalized), 4. Perspective (Foregrounded vs. Backgrounded), 5. Emphasis (Emphasized vs. Non-Emphasized), 6. Presupposedness (Presupposed vs. Non-Presupposed), 7. Unitariness