Table of Contents

Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Information; 3. The mental representations of discourse referents; 4. Pragmatic relations: topic; 5. Pragmatic relations: focus; 6. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Promotional Information

This major contribution to the study of discourse pragmatics investigates the 'information structure' of sentences.

Reviews

'It represents the state of the art in functional syntax.' Journal of Linguistics