Salience: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on its Function in Discourse (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs)

Contents......Page 6
Introduction: Salience in linguistics and beyond......Page 8
Part I. Entity-based salience in discourse......Page 36
Demonstratives and salience: Towards a functional taxonomy......Page 38
Parenthetical agent-demoting constructions in Eastern Khanty: Discourse Salience vis-à-vis referring expressions......Page 64
Joint information value of syntactic and semantic prominence for subsequent pronominal reference......Page 88
The Mental Salience Framework: Context-adequate generation of referring expressions......Page 112
Part II. Beyond entities in discourse......Page 148
Discourse-structural salience from a cross-linguistic perspective: Coordination and its contribution to discourse (structure)......Page 150
Rhetorical relations and verb placement in Old High German......Page 180
Part III. Beyond purely linguistic salience......Page 210
Visual salience and the other one......Page 212
Salience in hypertext: Multiple preferred centers in a plurilinear discourse environment......Page 236
Establishing salience during narrative text comprehension: A simulation view account......Page 258
Index of determinants, manifestations and aspects of salience......Page 286
Subject index......Page 288