Pragmatics of Left Detachment in Spoken Standard French.

By: Barnes, Betsy KMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Pragmatics & BeyondPublisher: Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1985Copyright date: ©1985Description: 1 online resource (131 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9789027279613Subject(s): French language -- Spoken French | French language -- SyntaxGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Pragmatics of Left Detachment in Spoken Standard FrenchDDC classification: 445 LOC classification: PC2361 -- .B37 1985ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
THE PRAGMATICS OF LEFT DETACHMENT IN SPOKEN STANDARD FRENCH -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 1.1. Purposes of the study -- 1.2. The language of the corpus -- 2. REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE -- 2.1. Syntactic descriptions and the syntactic-pragmatic correlation hypothesis (SPCH) -- 2.2. Pragmatic descriptions -- 3. THE DATA-GENERAL OBSERVATIONS AND HYPOTHESES -- 3.1. Preliminary observations -- 3.2. Problems with the syntactic-pragmatic correlation hypothesis -- 3.2.1. LD in contrastive contexts -- 3.2.2. Introduction of new referents -- 3.3. Contrastiveness and topic shift -- 3.4. A new hypothesis - In search of LDs of minimal pragmatic motivation -- 3.5. Alternative syntactic analyses -- 3.6. The 'domain' of LD: sentence-topic and discourse-topic -- 3.6.1. The notion of discourse-topic -- 3.6.2. LD, sentence-topic, and discourse-topic in the corpus -- 4. PRONOMINAL DETACHMENTS -- 4.1. 'Personal' pronouns: first person: moi, nous -- 4.2. 'Nonpersonal' pronouns: ça -- 5. LEXICALNP-DETACHMENTS -- 5.1. With nonpersonal anaphor -- 5.1.1. NP c'est ... -- 5.1.2. NP aV -- 5.2. With personal anaphor: NP il/elle ... -- 5.2.1. LD and information statuses - background -- 5.2.2. The data -- (I) Introduction and summary -- (II) LD with evoked referents -- (III) LD with new referents -- 5.2.3. LD and the ya-cleft -- 5.2.4. LD vs. NP-subjects: the grounding principle -- 5.3. NP-LDs with nonsubject anaphors -- 5.4. The definiteness constraint -- 6. SPECIAL CASES -- 6.1. 'Topicalization' and 'Focus Movement' in spoken French -- 6.2. No-anaphor LDs -- 6.3. Double LDs -- 7. CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES.
Summary: Left detachment constructions (LDs) (e.g. un buffet de campagne, c'est un meuble) are examined in a corpus of informal spontaneous conversation between educated native speakers of French. The overwhelming majority of these constructions are shown to have a clearly pragmatic motivation. The author's observations support a view of LD in French as a particular type of paratactic structure which should be seen primarily as a feature of unplanned discourse. The analysis partly builds on views expressed by Knud Lambrecht in an earlier contribution tot this series.
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THE PRAGMATICS OF LEFT DETACHMENT IN SPOKEN STANDARD FRENCH -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 1.1. Purposes of the study -- 1.2. The language of the corpus -- 2. REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE -- 2.1. Syntactic descriptions and the syntactic-pragmatic correlation hypothesis (SPCH) -- 2.2. Pragmatic descriptions -- 3. THE DATA-GENERAL OBSERVATIONS AND HYPOTHESES -- 3.1. Preliminary observations -- 3.2. Problems with the syntactic-pragmatic correlation hypothesis -- 3.2.1. LD in contrastive contexts -- 3.2.2. Introduction of new referents -- 3.3. Contrastiveness and topic shift -- 3.4. A new hypothesis - In search of LDs of minimal pragmatic motivation -- 3.5. Alternative syntactic analyses -- 3.6. The 'domain' of LD: sentence-topic and discourse-topic -- 3.6.1. The notion of discourse-topic -- 3.6.2. LD, sentence-topic, and discourse-topic in the corpus -- 4. PRONOMINAL DETACHMENTS -- 4.1. 'Personal' pronouns: first person: moi, nous -- 4.2. 'Nonpersonal' pronouns: ça -- 5. LEXICALNP-DETACHMENTS -- 5.1. With nonpersonal anaphor -- 5.1.1. NP c'est ... -- 5.1.2. NP aV -- 5.2. With personal anaphor: NP il/elle ... -- 5.2.1. LD and information statuses - background -- 5.2.2. The data -- (I) Introduction and summary -- (II) LD with evoked referents -- (III) LD with new referents -- 5.2.3. LD and the ya-cleft -- 5.2.4. LD vs. NP-subjects: the grounding principle -- 5.3. NP-LDs with nonsubject anaphors -- 5.4. The definiteness constraint -- 6. SPECIAL CASES -- 6.1. 'Topicalization' and 'Focus Movement' in spoken French -- 6.2. No-anaphor LDs -- 6.3. Double LDs -- 7. CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES.

Left detachment constructions (LDs) (e.g. un buffet de campagne, c'est un meuble) are examined in a corpus of informal spontaneous conversation between educated native speakers of French. The overwhelming majority of these constructions are shown to have a clearly pragmatic motivation. The author's observations support a view of LD in French as a particular type of paratactic structure which should be seen primarily as a feature of unplanned discourse. The analysis partly builds on views expressed by Knud Lambrecht in an earlier contribution tot this series.

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