Contrastive Topic/Focus and Polarity in Discourse
Contrastive Topic/Focus and Polarity in Discourse
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话语中的对比主题/焦点和极性
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10.1163/9780080462608_019
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2006
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Chungmin Lee
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作者：
Chungmin Lee
对比话题和对比焦点的信息结构范畴在极性和（常规）含义生成和含义中止中起着关键作用，它们分别与PA和SN连词以及描述性（指称性）否定和元语言否定进行了关联。对比话题和让步句中的让步性概念以及由此衍生的等级性都是例证。它们在量词和量词位置上的作用也被研究。到目前为止，信息结构的作用还没有得到适当的受理在语义学和/或语用学的含义和极性或更确切地说，在“边界战争”（霍恩在本卷）之间。本研究使用韩语、英语和一些跨语言的数据来寻求一般性的原则。
The information structure categories of Contrastive Topic and Contrastive Focus are examined to see their crucial roles in polarity and (conventional) implicature generation and implicature suspension and their respective correlatins with PA and SN conjunctions on one hand and descriptive (denotational) negation and metalinguistic negation on the other. The underlying notion of concessivity involved in both Contrastive Topic and Concessive and thereby derived scalarity are exemplified. Their role in quantifiers and quantifier positions on the Square of Opposition are also investigated. So far the role of information structure has not been duly entertained in the semantics and/or pragmatics of implicature and polarity or rather in the “border war” (Horn in this volume) between the two. Korean, English and some crosslinguistic data are employed to seek general principles.