【短裂句的信息结构与语用功能】郑守疆.pdf

MasterDegreeThesis The Information Structures and Pragmatic Functions of Pseudocleft and Cleft Constructions Author:Zheng Sho Major:English La andLiterature Supervisor:Dr.xiln:(Associate Professor) Department of English College of Foreign Languages Jilin University December 24,1998
7CONTRASTINGINFORMATION.7 ACHIEVING COHESION/COHERENCE7CLARIFYINGOBSCURITY7SERVING ASTRANSITIONAL.DEVICE7RECALLINGTOPICS8.CONCLUSIONBIBLIOGRAPHYENGLISHABSTRACT:CHINESEABSTRACT
information structure.Informationinthis technicalsense,is thetension betweenwhatisalreadyknownorpredictableandwhatisnewor unpredictable.This is different from themathematicaiconcept of information,whichistherneasure ofunpredictability. 