SITUATIONAL AND INFORMATION STRUCTURES OF DISCOURSE (Les structures situationnelles et intormationnelles de discours)

• Authors: Miczka Ewa
• Languages of publication: FR

Abstracts

EN

The article regards relations between situational and information structures of discourse. Analyzing the possible configurations between these two types of structures, the authoress aims to present their role in discourse comprehension - the process which implicates creation of discourse representation. The situational structures are defined as a sequence of frames (Goffman, 1991). Each frame permits to conceptualize one event forming a part of information introduced in discourse. The authoress proposes to apply the notion of cognitive event and their typology introduced by R. Langacker to describe the variations of situational structures of discourse. The information structures are defined as hierarchically organized thematic-rhematic structures. She distinguishes three levels in their thematic part represented by: global theme, theme of group of sentences and theme of sentence. The rhematic part is divided in two levels: the first one contains rhematic groups, the second rhemes of sentences. The authoress focuses her attention on the highest level of information structure and describes the relations between the units of situational structures - frames and cognitive events - and choices regarding the global theme of discourse.

Keywords

EN

COGNITIVE EVENT; FRAME; INFORMATION STRUCTURES; RHEME; SITUATIONAL STRUCTURES; THEME

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
• Journal: Cognitive Studies
• Year: 2009
• Issue: 9
• Pages: 233-241
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Miczka Ewa

• Ewa Miczka, Uniwersytet Slaski w Katowicach, ul. Bankowa 12, 40-007 Katowice, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10PLAAAA077431