TY  - JOUR
A1  - Zimmermann, Malte
T1  - Contrastive focus
T2  - Interdisciplinary Studies on Information Structure 6.2007 / Féry, C., G. Fanselow, and M. Krifka (eds.): The Notion of Information Structure
N2  - The article puts forward a discourse-pragmatic approach to the notoriously evasive phenomena of contrastivity and emphasis. It is argued that occurrences of focus that are treated in terms of "contrastive focus", "kontrast" (Vallduví & Vilkuna 1998) or "identificational focus" (É. Kiss 1998) in the literature should not be analyzed in familiar semantic terms like introduction of alternatives or exhaustivity. Rather, an adequate analysis must take into account discourse-pragmatic notions like hearer expectation or discourse expectability of the focused content in a given discourse situation. The less expected a given content is judged to be for the hearer, relative to the Common Ground, the more likely a speaker is to mark this content by means of special grammatical devices, giving rise to emphasis.
KW  - contrastive focus
KW  - emphasis
KW  - discourse expectability
Y1  - 2007
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/10027
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1112179
UR  - http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2008/1968/
N1  - Interdisciplinary Studies on Information Structure 6.2007, S. 147–159 ; Féry, C., G. Fanselow, and M. Krifka (eds.): The Notion of Information Structure
SP  - 147
EP  - 159
ER  -