Stephen Carlson wrote: ↑May 26th, 2017, 5:03 am
Jonathan Robie wrote: ↑May 24th, 2017, 8:52 pm
Nice posts! Question: What reference do you recommend for information flow? Is there a good overview articles so I don't have to start another 500 page book?
Perhaps, Wallace Chafe,
Discourse, Consciousness, and Time: The Flow and Displacement of Conscious Experience in Speaking and Writing (U Chicago Press, 1994). And the book is only 300 pages. It's almost a quarter-century old, but Chafe was the pioneer in the field and this is a recapitulation of his thinking.
By some lucky coincidence, I had ordered that before posting this question, so I seem to have ordered the right one. Used copies are available at very reasonable prices. He seems to have done a lot of work on Seneca at the same reservations where my father did some research, I grew up near these reservations and was on one of them from time to time. So when I saw some things he had written on Seneca, I was interested.
Stephen Carlson wrote: ↑May 26th, 2017, 5:03 am
ETA: As for an article, perhaps Nicolas Bertrand's article in the
Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics, "Information Structure and Greek."
Thanks!
Maybe I need to read the book before I'll really understand what you are getting at. Here's the kind of thing I'm confused by. Wallace Chafe did seem to acknowledge constituents that had a relationship to each other, e.g. for the sentence
my father laughed:
I would have expected constituents to be units that information flow and discourse analysis would work from. I would have expected them to acknowledge the hierarchical relationship among constituents. I'll need to read the book to understand this better.
ἐξίσταντο δὲ πάντες καὶ διηποροῦντο, ἄλλος πρὸς ἄλλον λέγοντες, τί θέλει τοῦτο εἶναι;
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