Feeder Topic

• 발행기관: 한국영어학학회
• 저자명: Yoon-kyoung Joh
• 간행물 정보: 『영어학연구』영어학연구 제19권 1호, 47~65쪽, 전체 19쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2013.04.30

영문 초록

Many researches on topics acknowledge topicless units of discourse. For example, the Centering theory allows a discourse-segment-initial utterance not to have a backward-looking center and the framework proposed by Kuppevelt(1995) identifies such a unit as a feeder. However, this paper primarily claims that there are no topicless units in discourse once we make distinctions for topics in a way that is fine-grained enough. Thus, this paper identifies a so-called feeder topic, a topic that is not yet established in the discourse but is a clear topic at least in the attentional state of the speaker. I further claim that the there-be construction in English can function as an operational characterization of the feeder topic. Identifying such a topic notion, as for the Centering theory, I suggest that there should be no utterances that have no backward-looking centers.

목차

1. Introduction

2. Topicless Discourse Units

3. Feeder Topic

4. Conclusion

References

키워드

centering theory backward-looking center feeder feeder topic there-be construction