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HU Credits:
2
Degree/Cycle:
2nd degree (Master)
Responsible Department:
linguistics
Semester:
2nd Semester
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Dr. Pavel Ozerov
Coordinator Office Hours:
Tue 12-13
Teaching Staff:
Dr. Pavel Ozerov
Course/Module description:
The field of Information Structure studies how information communicated by linguistic means is arranged in a given context, and how its arrangement interacts with various pragmatic-semantic factors. In this course we will critically survey the existing (primarily functional) approaches in the field. We will examine whether and how these views address vast cross-linguistic data available in modern research, and will investigate diverse phenomena from particular languages.
Course/Module aims:
Acquaintance with the current approaches in the field of Information Structure and ability to carry out linguistic analysis of relevant language-specific devices
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
carry out a linguistic analysis of Information Structure in discourse, taking into account the overall discourse structuring and interactional characteristics of text
Attendance requirements(%):
80
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
lectures, reading, class exercises, individual project and its presentation
Course/Module Content:
-basic notions: topic, focus, comment, presupposition, common ground, assertion
-pragmatic particles, relevant syntactic structure (e.g. cleft) and other devices
-the interaction between discourse structure and information structure
- interaction in discourse and information structure
Required Reading:
-Krifka, Manfred and Renate Musan. 2013. Information Structure: Overview and linguistic issues. In: Krifka and Musan (eds.) The Expression of Information Structure. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Mouton.
-LAMBRECHT, KNUD. 1994. Information Structure and Sentence Form: Topic, Focus, and the Mental Representations of Discourse Referents. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (selected parts)
- Matić, Dejan, and Daniel Wedgwood. 2013. “The Meanings of Focus: The Significance of an Interpretation-Based Category in Cross-Linguistic Analysis.” Journal of Linguistics 49 (1): 127–163
- MASCHLER, YAEL. 2015. ‘Word Order in Time: Emergent Hebrew (NS)V/VNS Syntax.’ In Studies in Language and Social Interaction, edited by Arnulf Deppermann and Susanne Günthner, 27:201–236. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins
SASSE, HANS-JÜRGEN. 1987. ‘The Thetic/Categorical Distinction Revisited.’ Linguistics 25: 511–580
- STALNAKER, ROBERT. 2002. ‘Common Ground.’ Linguistics and Philosophy 25 (5): 701–721.
- DU BOIS, JOHN W. 2007. ‘The Stance Triangle.’ In Stancetaking in Discourse: Subjectivity, Evaluation, Interaction, edited by Robert Englebretson, 139–182. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
-TBA
Additional Reading Material:
-TBA
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 0 %
Presentation 30 %
Participation in Tutorials 10 %
Project work 50 %
Assignments 10 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %
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