Sociobiological Bases of Information Structure.
Masia, Viviana.
Sociobiological Bases of Information Structure. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (217 pages) - Advances in Interaction Studies ; v.9 . - Advances in Interaction Studies .
Intro -- Sociobiological Bases of Information Structure -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Dedication page -- Table of contents -- List of tables -- List of figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- chapter 1 -- Presupposition and assertion -- Theoretical overviews -- 1.1 Preamble -- 1.2 Presupposition and assertion -- 1.2.1 Theoretical perspectives on presupposition -- 1.2.2 Approaches to presupposition projection: Dynamic semantics and discourse representation theory -- 1.2.2.1 Dynamic semantics -- 1.2.2.2 Discourse representation theory -- 1.2.3 A snapshot on categories: Presuppositions as not implicatures -- 1.3 Theoretical perspectives on assertion -- chapter 2 -- Topic, focus, given and new -- Theoretical overviews -- 2.1 Preamble -- 2.2 Topic and focus: From the prague linguistic circle onwards -- 2.3 Later approaches to information structure -- 2.4 Given and new -- 2.5 Levels of information structure: Long-term vs. short-term memory and the effects of information packaging -- 2.6 Summary and conclusion -- chapter 3 -- Sociobiological perspectives -- For a unified account of evidentiality and information structure -- 3.1 Preamble -- 3.2 Evidence, territory of knowledge, epistemic statuses and epistemic stances -- 3.3 Evidentiality in the world's languages: Information source and speaker's attitude -- 3.3.1 Information source evidentiality -- 3.3.2 Speaker attitude evidentiality -- 3.4 Evidentiality and information structure -- 3.4.1 Epistemic stances and the evidential values encoded by IS units -- 3.4.1.1 Assertion, focus and personal experience evidentiality -- 3.5 Closure -- chapter 4 -- Experimental perspectives on information structure processing -- A literature review -- 4.1 Preamble -- 4.2 Psycholinguistic background on IS units -- 4.2.1 Psycholinguistic perspectives on presupposition vs. assertion processing. 4.2.2 Psycholinguistic perspectives on the processing of topic, focus, given and new information -- 4.3 Neurological frontiers on language studies: Brain imaging techniques -- 4.3.1 Language-related neurophysiological components: N400 and P600 -- 4.3.2 Brain oscillatory dynamics as revealed by frequency bands -- 4.3.3 Towards context-dependent approaches to the study of sentence processing -- 4.3.4 Neurolinguistic approaches to presupposition vs. assertion processing -- 4.3.5 Topic-focus, given-new and event-related brain potentials -- chapter 5 -- Experimental perspectives on information structure processing -- Two electrophysiological studies -- 5.1 Study 1. Electrophysiological response to presupposition vs. assertion of new information: Evidence from event-related potentials -- 5.1.1 Prelude -- 5.1.2 Limits of previous experimental research on presupposition processing -- 5.1.3 Study rationale and experimental predictions -- 5.1.4 Materials and method -- 5.1.4.1 Participants -- 5.1.4.2 Experimental design -- 5.1.4.3 Stimuli -- 5.1.5 Measures on materials -- 5.1.5.1 Naturalness -- 5.1.5.2 Readability and length -- 5.1.6 Procedure and task -- 5.1.7 EEG recording and analysis -- 5.2 Results -- 5.2.1 Behavioral task -- 5.2.2 ERP results -- 5.2.3 N400 analysis -- 5.2.4 Latency analysis -- 5.3 Discussion -- 5.4 Study 2. Power spectrum analysis of different frequency bands during the online processing of aligned and misaligned Topic-Focus structures -- 5.4.1 Prelude -- 5.4.2 Method -- 5.4.3 Predictions -- 5.4.4 Data recording -- 5.4.5 Data pre-processing -- 5.4.6 Results -- 5.4.7 Discussion -- 5.4.8 Concluding remarks -- 5.5 Information structure processing between bottom-up and top-down modalities -- 5.6 Summary and conclusion: Chapter four and chapter five -- chapter 6 -- A biolinguistic perspective on information structure -- 6.1 Preamble. 6.2 Earlier accounts -- 6.3 When selectivity matters -- 6.3.1 Emerging selectivity: Ontogenetic evidence of information structure development -- 6.4 A closer look at evolution -- 6.4.1 Information structure as shaped by nature -- 6.4.1.1 Cognitive constraints on the emergence of IS units: The role of bottom-up (or data-driven) processing modalities -- 6.4.1.2 Cognitive constraints on the emergence of IS units: The role of top-down (or context-driven) processing modalities -- 6.5 Conclusion -- References -- Index.
9789027264688
Discourse analysis-Psychological aspects.
Pragmatics-Psychological aspects.
Sociobiolgogy-Philosophy.
Semantics (Philosophy).
Electronic books.
P302.8.M27 2017
306.44
Sociobiological Bases of Information Structure. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (217 pages) - Advances in Interaction Studies ; v.9 . - Advances in Interaction Studies .
Intro -- Sociobiological Bases of Information Structure -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Dedication page -- Table of contents -- List of tables -- List of figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- chapter 1 -- Presupposition and assertion -- Theoretical overviews -- 1.1 Preamble -- 1.2 Presupposition and assertion -- 1.2.1 Theoretical perspectives on presupposition -- 1.2.2 Approaches to presupposition projection: Dynamic semantics and discourse representation theory -- 1.2.2.1 Dynamic semantics -- 1.2.2.2 Discourse representation theory -- 1.2.3 A snapshot on categories: Presuppositions as not implicatures -- 1.3 Theoretical perspectives on assertion -- chapter 2 -- Topic, focus, given and new -- Theoretical overviews -- 2.1 Preamble -- 2.2 Topic and focus: From the prague linguistic circle onwards -- 2.3 Later approaches to information structure -- 2.4 Given and new -- 2.5 Levels of information structure: Long-term vs. short-term memory and the effects of information packaging -- 2.6 Summary and conclusion -- chapter 3 -- Sociobiological perspectives -- For a unified account of evidentiality and information structure -- 3.1 Preamble -- 3.2 Evidence, territory of knowledge, epistemic statuses and epistemic stances -- 3.3 Evidentiality in the world's languages: Information source and speaker's attitude -- 3.3.1 Information source evidentiality -- 3.3.2 Speaker attitude evidentiality -- 3.4 Evidentiality and information structure -- 3.4.1 Epistemic stances and the evidential values encoded by IS units -- 3.4.1.1 Assertion, focus and personal experience evidentiality -- 3.5 Closure -- chapter 4 -- Experimental perspectives on information structure processing -- A literature review -- 4.1 Preamble -- 4.2 Psycholinguistic background on IS units -- 4.2.1 Psycholinguistic perspectives on presupposition vs. assertion processing. 4.2.2 Psycholinguistic perspectives on the processing of topic, focus, given and new information -- 4.3 Neurological frontiers on language studies: Brain imaging techniques -- 4.3.1 Language-related neurophysiological components: N400 and P600 -- 4.3.2 Brain oscillatory dynamics as revealed by frequency bands -- 4.3.3 Towards context-dependent approaches to the study of sentence processing -- 4.3.4 Neurolinguistic approaches to presupposition vs. assertion processing -- 4.3.5 Topic-focus, given-new and event-related brain potentials -- chapter 5 -- Experimental perspectives on information structure processing -- Two electrophysiological studies -- 5.1 Study 1. Electrophysiological response to presupposition vs. assertion of new information: Evidence from event-related potentials -- 5.1.1 Prelude -- 5.1.2 Limits of previous experimental research on presupposition processing -- 5.1.3 Study rationale and experimental predictions -- 5.1.4 Materials and method -- 5.1.4.1 Participants -- 5.1.4.2 Experimental design -- 5.1.4.3 Stimuli -- 5.1.5 Measures on materials -- 5.1.5.1 Naturalness -- 5.1.5.2 Readability and length -- 5.1.6 Procedure and task -- 5.1.7 EEG recording and analysis -- 5.2 Results -- 5.2.1 Behavioral task -- 5.2.2 ERP results -- 5.2.3 N400 analysis -- 5.2.4 Latency analysis -- 5.3 Discussion -- 5.4 Study 2. Power spectrum analysis of different frequency bands during the online processing of aligned and misaligned Topic-Focus structures -- 5.4.1 Prelude -- 5.4.2 Method -- 5.4.3 Predictions -- 5.4.4 Data recording -- 5.4.5 Data pre-processing -- 5.4.6 Results -- 5.4.7 Discussion -- 5.4.8 Concluding remarks -- 5.5 Information structure processing between bottom-up and top-down modalities -- 5.6 Summary and conclusion: Chapter four and chapter five -- chapter 6 -- A biolinguistic perspective on information structure -- 6.1 Preamble. 6.2 Earlier accounts -- 6.3 When selectivity matters -- 6.3.1 Emerging selectivity: Ontogenetic evidence of information structure development -- 6.4 A closer look at evolution -- 6.4.1 Information structure as shaped by nature -- 6.4.1.1 Cognitive constraints on the emergence of IS units: The role of bottom-up (or data-driven) processing modalities -- 6.4.1.2 Cognitive constraints on the emergence of IS units: The role of top-down (or context-driven) processing modalities -- 6.5 Conclusion -- References -- Index.
9789027264688
Discourse analysis-Psychological aspects.
Pragmatics-Psychological aspects.
Sociobiolgogy-Philosophy.
Semantics (Philosophy).
Electronic books.
P302.8.M27 2017
306.44