Survey on Informative Function of Topicalization and Passivization in Persian; A Functional perspective | ||
| متن پژوهی ادبی | ||
| Article 1, Volume 9, Issue 30, December 2006, Pages 7-30 PDF (1.75 M) | ||
| Document Type: Research Paper | ||
| DOI: 10.22054/ltr.2007.6382 | ||
| Authors | ||
| ali mir emadi; setareh majidi | ||
| Abstract | ||
| To investigate the information status of preposed elements , informative function of topicalization and passivization and also the significant factors on informative function of these two Processes , , r · topicalized and passive constructions were collected form Makhmalbaf' s published stories. Analyzing the data , it was found that the frequency of preposed elements with information status of [+ new] is high. In the research , the effect of three kinds of information -focus structure on the above -mentioned processes has been specified: sentence -focus structure , predicate -focus structure and argument -focus structure. The frequency of them and their codification at syntactic level were affected by cognitive and mental situations of discoursal entities. In addition , it was concluded that informative function of topicalization and passivization depend on some factors: the speaker's assumed familiarity with hearer's mentalities and knowledge , the contextual situation (linguistic/ non -Iinguistic) such as definiteness and reference. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Information structure; Topicalization; Passivization; functionalism | ||
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