Right-dislocation in Catalan: tails, polarity and activation

While our understanding has grown of the discourse role of rightdislocation (RD), there exists a class of RD (continuing RD) that have proven impervious to any principled analysis, for the role of the dislocate is (apparently) null, given that its referent appears immediately before the RD and, thus...

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Autores: Mayol, Laia, Villalba, Xavier
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Fecha de publicación:2013
País:España
Recursos:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
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Palavra-chave:Right-dislocation
Information structure
Polarity
Discourse function
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spelling Right-dislocation in Catalan: tails, polarity and activationMayol, LaiaVillalba, XavierRight-dislocationInformation structurePolarityDiscourse functionWhile our understanding has grown of the discourse role of rightdislocation (RD), there exists a class of RD (continuing RD) that have proven impervious to any principled analysis, for the role of the dislocate is (apparently) null, given that its referent appears immediately before the RD and, thus, simple pronominalisation should suffice to retrieve it. This paper aims to account for the pragmatic felicity conditions of continuing RD by looking at the role of polarity, an overlooked factor in previous work. Particularly, we will show that a significant amount of continuing RD involve the contradiction of part of the interlocutor’s common knowledge. Moreover, we will argue that RD does not have a single discourse function, but several: it can work as a ‘tail’ or as an activation mechanism.This research has been funded by research projects FFI2011-23356 (Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Spain), 2009SGR1079 (Generalitat de Catalunya), awarded to the UAB, and by a Juan de la Cierva grant (JDC-2009-3922) awarded to the first author.Brill Academic Publishers202020202013info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10230/43680http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18773109-13050104reponame:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunyainstname:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)InglésInternational Review of Pragmatics. 2013;5(1):87-117.DOI: 10.1163/18773109-13050104info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/3PN/FFI2011-23356© Brill Academic Publishers [http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18773109-13050104]info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:recercat.cat:10230/436802026-05-29T05:05:01Z
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title Right-dislocation in Catalan: tails, polarity and activation
spellingShingle Right-dislocation in Catalan: tails, polarity and activation
Mayol, Laia
Right-dislocation
Information structure
Polarity
Discourse function
title_short Right-dislocation in Catalan: tails, polarity and activation
title_full Right-dislocation in Catalan: tails, polarity and activation
title_fullStr Right-dislocation in Catalan: tails, polarity and activation
title_full_unstemmed Right-dislocation in Catalan: tails, polarity and activation
title_sort Right-dislocation in Catalan: tails, polarity and activation
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Mayol, Laia
Villalba, Xavier
author Mayol, Laia
author_facet Mayol, Laia
Villalba, Xavier
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author2 Villalba, Xavier
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Right-dislocation
Information structure
Polarity
Discourse function
topic Right-dislocation
Information structure
Polarity
Discourse function
description While our understanding has grown of the discourse role of rightdislocation (RD), there exists a class of RD (continuing RD) that have proven impervious to any principled analysis, for the role of the dislocate is (apparently) null, given that its referent appears immediately before the RD and, thus, simple pronominalisation should suffice to retrieve it. This paper aims to account for the pragmatic felicity conditions of continuing RD by looking at the role of polarity, an overlooked factor in previous work. Particularly, we will show that a significant amount of continuing RD involve the contradiction of part of the interlocutor’s common knowledge. Moreover, we will argue that RD does not have a single discourse function, but several: it can work as a ‘tail’ or as an activation mechanism.
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