Publications

Publication details [#23448]

Gundel, Jeannette K. 1985. 'Shared knowledge' and topicality. Journal of Pragmatics 9 (1) : 83–107.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

intonation pattern | mutual knowledge | topic vs. comment

Journal WWW

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Annotation

The regular association of 'shared knowledge' with specific linguistic forms is said to be a function the role these forms play in encoding a sentence's topic-comment distinction.