Browsing by Author "Krifka, Manfred"

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2007-01-01Teil eines Buches

Approximate interpretation of number words

A case for strategic communication

Krifka, Manfred

A pragmatic theory of the approximate vs. precise interpretation of round number words such as one hundred vs. ninety-seven is developed that improves on the previous account of Krifka (2002) insofar as it does not ...
2008-07-25Teil eines Buches

Basic notions of information structure

Krifka, Manfred

This article takes stock of the basic notions of Information Structure (IS). It first provides a general characterization of IS — following Chafe (1976) — within a communicative model of Common Ground(CG), which distinguishes ...
2008-07-18Teil eines Buches

Functional similarities between bimanual coordination and topic/comment structure

Krifka, Manfred

Human manual action exhibits a differential use of a non-dominant (typically, left) and a dominant (typically, right) hand. Human communication exhibits a pervasive structuring of utterances into topic and comment. I will ...
2008-01-01Zeitschriftenartikel

Informationsstruktur

die sprachlichen Mittel der Gliederung von Äußerung, Satz und Text

Krifka, Manfred; Fiedler, Ines; Schwarz, Anne

Welchen Bedingungen unterliegt menschliche Kommunikation? Welche sprachlichen Mittel verwendet ein Sprecher um sicherzustellen, dass sein Zuhörer tatsächlich das versteht, was er kommunizieren möchte? Wie also »verpacken« ...