Syllabus - Topics in the study of Information Structure (41837)

Syllabus Topics in the study of Information Structure - 41837
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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 Email: Pavel.Ozerov@mail.huji.ac.il 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 % Additional information:

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