Books /Integration of Natural Languages and Information Structure

9798893661231

States Academic Press

English

2025

100

USD 163.95

The formal organization of information within a sentence is referred to as information structuring. It encompasses elements that respond to the recipient's current cognitive state. Key concepts include focus, givenness, and topic, along with associated notions of background, newness, and comment respectively. Focus denotes the existence of significant alternatives crucial for understanding linguistic expressions. Givenness suggests that the meaning of an expression is present in the immediate context of the utterance. Topic represents the unit recognized by a speaker, around which information, the comment, is provided. Various approaches to information structure exist, including generative or functional architectures. This book provides comprehensive insights into the field of information structuring. The topics covered in this extensive book deal with the core aspects of this field. Coherent flow of topics, student-friendly language and extensive use of examples make this textbook an invaluable source of knowledge in the field of information structuring.