Introduction to prominence in discourse

This Special Issue on prominence in discourse originated from collaborative research at the University of Cologne within the research center Prominence in Language that considers prominence an organizational principle of language that operates at all levels of linguistic representation. Here, we foc...

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Published inJournal of pragmatics Vol. 154; pp. 18 - 21
Main Authors Schumacher, Petra B., von Heusinger, Klaus
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Amsterdam Elsevier Science Ltd 01.12.2019
Subjects
Coherence
Collaboration
Discourse structure
Linguistics
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Summary:This Special Issue on prominence in discourse originated from collaborative research at the University of Cologne within the research center Prominence in Language that considers prominence an organizational principle of language that operates at all levels of linguistic representation. Here, we focus on reflections of prominence at the level of discourse structure. The contributions that make up this Special Issue address prominence-related research questions for different discourse notions, including referents, time points, propositions, coherence relations and inferences.
ISSN:0378-2166
1879-1387
DOI:10.1016/j.pragma.2019.07.019