Questions in Discourse Lecture 2: Focus and Topic: Attending to Relevant Alternatives
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There are many respects in which the conventional content of an utterance reflects speaker assumptions about the context of utterance and the relation between that context and the intended interpretation of the utterance. Taken together, these constitute what Vallduví (1992,1993) called the Information Packaging of the utterance, aka its Information Structure. Two central aspects of this Information Packaging which were prominent in classical pragmatics: Topic and Focus. Here I want to briefly suggest how these notions are related to the QUD, and to the intentional structure of discourse more generally. This can only be a brief sketch. See extended discussions from the QUD perspective of (a) prosodic Focus in Roberts (1996/2012; 1998; 2011) and in Kadmon (2001), and (b) Topic in Büring (2003) and in Roberts (2012).
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