Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-26932
Publication type: Book part
Type of review: Peer review (publication)
Title: When data challenges theory : the analysis of information structure and its paradoxes
Authors: Garassino, Davide
Jacob, Daniel
et. al: No
DOI: 10.1075/la.273.00gar
10.21256/zhaw-26932
Published in: When data challenges theory : unexpected and paradoxical evidence in information structure
Editors of the parent work: Garassino, Davide
Jacob, Daniel
Page(s): 1
Pages to: 36
Issue Date: 2022
Publisher / Ed. Institution: John Benjamins
Publisher / Ed. Institution: Amsterdam
ISBN: 978-90-272-1080-7
978-90-272-5815-1
Language: English
Subjects: Information structure; Non-canonical syntax; Prosody; Discourse; Inferential pragmatics
Subject (DDC): 401.4: Terminology, discourse analysis, pragmatics
Abstract: This article provides a comprehensive survey on current research on information structure so as to clarify some ‘paradoxical’ effects stemming from the tension between data and theory. Paradoxes are here defined as unexpected data in light of certain assumptions held in mainstream literature. More specifically, we explore two possible sources of paradoxes: certain features of the experimental design and, above all, inadequate discourse models. Mainly considering dislocation and cleft sentences in French and Italian we suggest that some apparent paradoxes (such as non-focalizing clefts or dislocation expressing focus-related functions) can be conceived of as the effect of general pragmatic mechanisms and rhetorical strategies exploited by speakers. We also claim that these effects can be better understood through explicit models of discourse.
URI: https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/26932
Fulltext version: Accepted version
License (according to publishing contract): Licence according to publishing contract
Restricted until: 2023-02-22
Departement: Applied Linguistics
Organisational Unit: Institute of Translation and Interpreting (IUED)
Appears in collections:Publikationen Angewandte Linguistik

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Garassino, D., & Jacob, D. (2022). When data challenges theory : the analysis of information structure and its paradoxes. In D. Garassino & D. Jacob (Eds.), When data challenges theory : unexpected and paradoxical evidence in information structure (pp. 1–36). John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/la.273.00gar
Garassino, D. and Jacob, D. (2022) ‘When data challenges theory : the analysis of information structure and its paradoxes’, in D. Garassino and D. Jacob (eds) When data challenges theory : unexpected and paradoxical evidence in information structure. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 1–36. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1075/la.273.00gar.
D. Garassino and D. Jacob, “When data challenges theory : the analysis of information structure and its paradoxes,” in When data challenges theory : unexpected and paradoxical evidence in information structure, D. Garassino and D. Jacob, Eds. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2022, pp. 1–36. doi: 10.1075/la.273.00gar.
GARASSINO, Davide und Daniel JACOB, 2022. When data challenges theory : the analysis of information structure and its paradoxes. In: Davide GARASSINO und Daniel JACOB (Hrsg.), When data challenges theory : unexpected and paradoxical evidence in information structure. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. S. 1–36. ISBN 978-90-272-1080-7
Garassino, Davide, and Daniel Jacob. 2022. “When Data Challenges Theory : The Analysis of Information Structure and Its Paradoxes.” In When Data Challenges Theory : Unexpected and Paradoxical Evidence in Information Structure, edited by Davide Garassino and Daniel Jacob, 1–36. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/la.273.00gar.
Garassino, Davide, and Daniel Jacob. “When Data Challenges Theory : The Analysis of Information Structure and Its Paradoxes.” When Data Challenges Theory : Unexpected and Paradoxical Evidence in Information Structure, edited by Davide Garassino and Daniel Jacob, John Benjamins, 2022, pp. 1–36, https://doi.org/10.1075/la.273.00gar.


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