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A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology
by José Ángel García Landa
(University of Zaragoza, Spain)
Theme, Topic, and Focus
Focus
Information packaging - Given/New information
Keywords
Point
Theme
Topic
Focus
Bosch, Peter, and Rob van der Sandt, eds. Focus: Linguistic, Cognitive, and Computational Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999.
Bossong, G. "Morphemic marking of topic and focus." Belgian Journal of Linguistics 4 (1989): 27-51.
Dahl, Östen, ed. Topic and Comment: Contextual Boundness and Focus. Hamburg: Buske, 1974.
De Mey, Sjaak. "Generalized Quantifier Theory and the Semantics of Focus." In Quantifiers, Logic, and Language. Ed. Jaap van der Does and Jan van Eijck. Stanford (CA): CSLI Publications, 1996. 269-79.
Jiménez Fernández, Ángel. "A Minimalist Approach to Topicalisation and Focalisation." In Estudios de Filología Inglesa en honor de Antonio Garnica. Ed. Francisco Garrudo and Joaquín Comesaña. Sevilla: Universidad de Sevilla, 2005.
Krifka, Manfred. "A Compositional Semantics for Multiple Foci." In Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 1. Ithaca (NY): CLC Publications, Cornell U, 1991. 127-58. In Semantics: Critical Concepts in Linguistics. Ed. Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach. Volume VI: Discourse and Dynamics. London: Routledge, 2003.
Partee, Barbara. "Topic, Focus and Quantification." In Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 1. Ithaca (NY): CLC Publications, Cornell U, 1991. 159-87. In Semantics: Critical Concepts in Linguistics. Ed. Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach. Volume VI: Discourse and Dynamics. London: Routledge, 2003.
Poppi, Franca. "Focusing Statements as Instances of Different Authorial Stances." RANAM: Recherches anglaises et nord-américaines no. 36 (2003): ESSE 6—Strasbourg 2002. 2- Linguistics. Gen. ed. A. Hamm. Sub-eds. Pierre Frath and Matti Rissanen. Strasbourg: Université Marc Bloch, Service des périodiques, 2003. 101-11.*
Information packaging – Given / New Information
Allerton, David J. "The Notion of 'Givenness' and its Relations to Presupposition and Theme." Lingua 44 (1978): 133-168.
Chafe, W. L. "Givenness, Contrastiveness, Definiteness, Subjects, Topics and Point of View." In Subject and Topic. New York: Academic Press, 1976. 25-56.
Clark, H. H., and S. E. Haviland. "Comprehension and the Given-New Contract." In Discourse Production and Comprehension. Ed. R. O. Freedle. Norwood (NJ): Ablex, 1977. 1-40.
Dahl, Östen. "What Is New Information?" In Reports on Text Linguistics: Approaches to Word Order. Ed. N. E. Enkvist and V. Kohonen. Åbo: Akademia, 1976. 37-51.
Enkvist, N. E., and V. Kohonen, eds. Reports on Text Linguistics: Approaches to Word Order. Åbo: Akademia, 1976.
Gault, Pierre. "Rhématique/Thématique, ou les élans de la syntaxe." In Recent Trends in Narratological Research. Ed. John Pier. (GRAAT 21). Tours: Groupes de Recherches Anglo-Américaines de l'Université François Rabelais de Tours, 1999. 207-24.*
Gómez González, M. A. The Theme-Topic Interface: Evidence from English. (Pragmatics and Beyond, ns 71). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2000.
Grenoble, Lenore. Deixis and Information Packaging in Russian Discourse. (Pragmatics and Beyond New Series, 50). Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1998.
Güldemann, Tom, Sabine Zerbian, and Malte Zimmermann. "Variation in Information Structure with Special Reference to Africa." Annual Review of Linguistics 1.1 (Jan. 2015).*
http://linguistics.annualreviews.org
2015
Leeuwen, Theo van. "Information Linking." In van Leeuwen, Introducing Social Semiotics. London: Routledge, 2005. 219-47.*
Micelli, Vanessa. "The Evolution of Information Structure." Abstract in The Evolution of Language. Ed. Andrew D. M. Smith et al. New Jersey: World Scientific, 2010. 461-62.*
Prince, Ellen F. "On the Given/New Distinction." Chicago Linguistic Society 15 (1979): 267-78.
_____. "Toward a Taxonomy of Given-New Information." In Radical Pragmatics. Ed. P. Cole. New York: Academic Press, 1981. 223-55.
Vallduví, Enric. "A Theory of Informatics." In The Informational Component. Ph.D. diss., U of Pennsylvania, 1990. Ann Arbor (MI): Garland, 1992. 201-18. In Semantics: Critical Concepts in Linguistics. Ed. Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach. Volume VI: Discourse and Dynamics. London: Routledge, 2003.
See also Argument structure; Focus; Theme.
Keywords
García Sánchez, Jairo Javier. "Las 'palabras clave' y su función representativa del sentido del texto." In Estudios sobre el texto: Nuevos enfoques y propuestas. Ed. Azucena Penas and Rosario González. Frankfurt a/M: Peter Lang, 2009. 343-61.*
Matoré, Georges. La Méthode en lexicologie. 1953.
Williams, Raymond. Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society. London: Fontana, 1976.
_____. Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1983.
_____. Keywords. Selection. In Literary Criticism and Theory. Ed. R. C. Davis and L. Finke. London: Longman, 1989. 774-84.*
Point
Chatman, Seymour. "1. What Is Narrative? Some Basic Terms." In Chatman, Reading Narrative Fiction. New York: Macmillan, 1993. 7-19. (The text-types: Alice Walker, 'The Flowers'; Getting the Point; The Meanings of 'Fiction': Kate Chopin, 'Two Portraits'; Story and Discourse).
Polanyi, Livia. "So What's the Point?" Semiotica 25 (1979): 207-41.
Schiffrin, Deborah. "How a Story Says What It Means and Does." Text 4 (1984): 313-46.
García Landa, José Angel. "What's the Point?" In García Landa, Vanity Fea 20 March 2012.* (A. Georgakopoulou).
http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2012/03/whats-point.html
2012
Theme
Allerton, David J. "The Notion of 'Givenness' and its Relations to Presupposition and Theme." Lingua 44 (1978): 133-168.
Arús Hita, Jorge "On the Aboutness of Theme." In AEDEAN XXX: Proceedings of the 30th International AEDEAN Conference. [Huelva, 2006]. Ed. María Losada Friend et al. Huelva: U de Huelva, 2007.* (Halliday).
Barcelona, Antonio. "La tematización en inglés y en español." In Actas del Primer Congreso de la Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos: Granada 15 al 17 de diciembre 1977. Granada: U de Granada, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Departamento de Filología Inglesa, 1978. 59-66.
Bardovi-Harlig, Kathleen, and J. Harlig. "Accentuation typology, word order, and theme-rheme structure." In Hammond et al. 1988: 125-146.
Carlson, Greg. "Thematic Roles and Their Role in Linguistic Theory." Linguistics 22 (1984): 259-79. In Semantics: Critical Concepts in Linguistics. Ed. Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach. Volume IV: The Semantics of Predicates and Inflection. London: Routledge, 2003.
Chatman, Seymour. "8. Theme and Ideology." In Chatman, Reading Narrative Fiction. New York: Macmillan, 1993. 273-303.* (The Definition of 'Theme'; Thesis; How to Formulate a Theme; Ideology; The Invisibility of Ideology; Dealing with the Ideologie3s of Fictions: William Faulkner, 'Delta Autumn'; Ernest Hemingway, 'Indian Camp'; Ama Ata Aidoo, 'Certain Winds from the South').
Downing, Angela. "An Alternative Approach to Theme: A Systemic-Functional Perspective." Word 40.2 (1991): 119-43.
_____. "A Brief Comment on 'Theme: Topic or Discourse Framework'?" (María A. Gómez). Miscelánea 19 (1998): 205-8.*
Eiler, Mary Ann. "Thematic Distribution as a Heuristic for Written Discourse Function." In Functional Approaches to Writing Research. Ed. B. Couture. London: Frances Pinter, 1986. 49-68.
Erickson, Frederick. "Money Tree, Lasagna Bush, Salt and Pepper: Social Construction of Topical Cohesion in a Conversation among Italian-Americans." In Analyzing Discourse: Text and Talk. Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1981. Ed. Deborah Tannen. Washington, DC: Georgetown UP, 1982. 43-71.
García Landa, José Ángel. "Tematización retroactiva, interacción e interpretación: La espiral hermenéutica de Schleiermacher a Goffman" Paper presented at the XXVI Congreso AEDEAN (Santiago de Compostela, Dec. 2002).
_____. “Tematización retroactiva, interacción e interpretación: La espiral hermenéutica de Schleiermacher a Goffman.” In Hans-Georg Gadamer: Ontología estética y hermenéutica. Ed. Teresa Oñate y Zubía, Cristina García Santos and Miguel Ángel Quintana Paz. Madrid: Dykinson, 2005. 679-88.*
_____. "Tematización retroactiva, interacción e interpretación: La espiral hermenéutica de Schleiermacher a Goffman." iPaper at Academia.edu 17 June 2011.*
https://www.academia.edu/633413/
2015
_____. "Retroactive Thematization, Interaction, and Interpretation: The Hermeneutic Spiral from Schleiermacher to Goffman / Tematización Retroactiva, Interacción e Interpretación: La espiral hermenéutica de Schleiermacher a Goffman (Spanish)." Online PDF at Social Science Research Network 17 June 2011.*
http://ssrn.com/abstract=1856424
2011
_____. "The Hermeneutic Spiral from Schleiermacher to Goffman: Retroactive Thematization, Interaction, and Interpretation." BELL (Belgian English Language and Literature) ns 2 (2004): 155-66.*
_____. "Retroactive Thematization, Interaction, and Interpretation: The Hermeneutic Spiral from Schleiermacher to Goffman." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 29 Nov. 2006.
http://garciala.blogia.com/2006/112902-retroactive-thematization-interaction-and-interpretation.php
2006-11-29
_____. "Retroactive Thematization, Interaction, and Interpretation: The Hermeneutic Spiral from Schleiermacher to Goffman." Online PDF in Zaguán 3 Feb. 2009.
http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/1986
2009
_____. "Retroactive Thematization, Interaction, and Interpretation: The Hermeneutic Spiral from Schleiermacher to Goffman." iPaper at Academia.edu 3 Feb. 2009.*
https://www.academia.edu/178559/
2015
Givón, Talmy. "Transitivity, Topicality and the Ute Impersonal Passive." In Studies in Transitivity. Ed. P. Hopper and S. A. Thompson. New York: Academic Press, 1982. 143-60.
_____. "Topic Continuity in Discourse: An Introduction." In Topic Continuity in Discourse: A Quantitative Cross-language Study. (Typological Studies in Language 3). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1983. 1-41.
_____, ed. Studies in African Linguistics. Journal 1970-75.
_____, ed. Topic Continuity in Discourse: A Quantitative Cross-language Study. (Typological Studies in Language 3). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1983.
Gómez González, María Angeles (Maria A. Gómez). "The Relevance of Theme in the Textual Organization of BBC News Reports." Word 45.3 (Dec. 1994): 293-305.*
_____. "Theme: A Heuristic Method for Discourse Analysis." Estudios Ingleses de la Universidad Complutense 3 (1995): 43-54.*
_____. "Theme: Topic or Discourse Framework?" Miscelánea 17 (1996): 123-40.*
_____. "An Alternative Analysis of Multiple Themes in Present-Day English: Arguments from Discourse." Atlantis 19.2 (December 1997, pub. December 1998): 135-160.*
_____. "On Subject It-Extrapositions: Evidence from Present-Day English." Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses 10 (1997): 95-107.*
Graña López, Benilde. "Argument Structure, Thematic Roles and Linking." Atlantis 23.2 (Dec. 2001): 49-64.
Gumperz, John J., Gurinder Aulakh, and Hannah Kaltman. "Thematic Structure and Progression in Discourse." In Language and Social Identity. Ed. John J. Gumperz. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1982. 2002. 22-56.*
Hatim, Basil. "8. At the Interface between Structure and Texture: The Textual Progression of Themes and Rhemes." In Hatim, Communication Across Cultures: Translation Theory and Contrastive Text Linguistics. Exeter: U of Exeter P, 1997. Rpt. 2000. 76-89.*
Jackendoff, Ray. "The status of thematic relations in linguistic theory." Linguistic Inquiry 18 (1987): 369-411.
John, Eileen. "18. Theme." In The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Literature. Ed. Noël Carroll and John Gibson. London: Routledge, 2015.
Jones, L. K. Theme in English Expository Discourse. Lake Bluff (IL): Jupiter Press; Princeton: Princeton UP, 1977.
Lambrecht, K. Information Structure and Sentence Form. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994.
Leonetti Jungl, Manuel. "La noción de tema y la interpretación de los indefinidos." Epos 7 (1991): 165-82.*
Levin, Beth, and Malka Rappaport. "What to Do with theta-Roles." In Thematic Relations. Ed. Wendy Wilkins. (Syntax and Semantics 21). New York: Academic Press, 1988. 7-36. In Semantics: Critical Concepts in Linguistics. Ed. Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach. Volume IV: The Semantics of Predicates and Inflection. London: Routledge, 2003.
Lorés Sanz, Rosa. "Thematic Patterns in Tourist Literature: An Approach to the Study of Genre." In Pragmatics at Work: The Translation of Tourist Literature. Ed. Mª Pilar Navarro et al. Bern: Peter Lang, 2004.
Moya Guijarro, A. Jesús. "Thematic and Topical Structuring in Three Subgenres: A Contrastive Study." Miscelánea 27 (2003 [issued Nov. 2004]): 131-53.*
Moya, A. Jesús, and J. Ávila. "Thematic Progression of Children's Stories as Related to Different Stages of Cognitive Development." Text & Talk 29.6 (2009): 755-774.
Van Valin, R. D., and A. Foley. "Information packaging in the clause." In Language Typology and Syntactic Description. Ed. T. Shopen. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1985. 1.299-347.
Wilkins, Wendy, ed. Thematic Relations. (Syntax and Semantics 21). New York: Academic Press, 1988.
See also Theme (English).
Topic
Adato, Albert. "Occasionality as a Constitutent Feature of Topics' Know-in-common Character." Unpublished paper. 1972.
_____. "Unanticipated Topic Continuations." Human Studies 2 (1979): 171-86.*
Albaladejo, Tomás. "Estructura de sentido, representación textual semántico-intensional y tópico textual." Anales de la Universidad de Murcia. Letras 43.1-2 (1984): 265-84.
Bánréti, Z. "The Topic of Texts and the Interpretation of Texts." In Text vs. Sentence: Continued. Ed. J. S. Petöfi. Hamburg: Buske, 1981. 43-57.
Bardovi-Harlig, Kathleen. "On the Claim that Topics Are Not Stressed." In Papers from the Parasession from the Interplay of Phonology, Morphology and Syntax. Ed. John F. Richardson, Mitchell Marks and Amy Chukerman. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1983.
Bentivoglio, Paola. "Topic Continuity and Discontinuity in Discourse: A Study of Spoken Latin American Spanish." In Topic Continuity in Discourse: Quantitative Cross-Language Studies. Ed. Talmy Givón. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1983.
Bossong, G. "Morphemic marking of topic and focus". Belgian Journal of Linguistics 4 (1989): 27-51.
Braddock, R. "The Frequency and Placement of Topic Sentences in Expository Prose." Research in the Teaching of English 8 (1974): 287-302.
Brdar-Szabó, Rita, and Mario Brdar. "Referential Metonymy Across Languages: What Can Cognitive Linguistics and Contrastive Linguistics Learn from Each Other?" In Contrastive Cognitive Linguistics. Ed. Javier Valenzuela and Ana Rojo. Monograph issue of IJES 3.2 (2003): 85-105.* (topic, metonymy, contrastive analysis, prepositional phrase).
Buring, Daniel. "Topic." In Focus: Linguistic, Cognitive, and Computational Perspectives. Ed. Peter Bosch and Rob van der Sandt. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999. 142-65. In Semantics: Critical Concepts in Linguistics. Ed. Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach. Volume VI: Discourse and Dynamics. London: Routledge, 2003.
Carretero, Marta. "A Comparative Analysis of Basic-Level Topics in Extracts from Three Prepared Speeches." Proceedings of the 20th International AEDEAN Conference. Barcelona: Universitat de Barcelona, Facultad de Filología, 1997. 115-20.*
Chafe, Wallace L. "Givenness, Contrastiveness, Definiteness, Subjects, Topics and Points of View." In Subject and Topic. Ed. Charles N. Li. New York: Academic Press, 1976. 25-55.
_____. "Polyphonic Topic Development." In Conversation: Cognitive, Communicative and Social Perspectives. Ed. T. Givón. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: Benjamins, 1997. 41-53.
Dahl, Östen, ed. Topic and Comment: Contextual Boundness and Focus. Hamburg: Buske, 1974.
Davison, Alice. "Syntactic Markedness and the Definition of Sentence Topic." Language 60.4 (1984): 797-846.
Dezso, L. "Towards a Typology of Theme and Rheme: SOV Languages." In Wortstellung und Bedeutung. Ed. M. Conte et al. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1978. 3-11.
Fumero Pérez, Mª del Carmen. "Topic Typology and Pragmatic Information in FG: Assessment and Proposal." In Actas del 25º Congreso AEDEAN, Granada 2001. CD-ROM. Granada: U de Granada: Departamento de Filología Inglesa, 2002.*
García Gómez, Antonio. "A Cognitive Approach to Topic Management in Verbal Duels on American Talkshows." Studies in English Language and Linguistics (SELL) 4 (2002): 145-170.
Givón, Talmy. "Topic Continuity in Discourse: An Introduction." In Topic Continuity in Discourse: A Quantitative Cross-Linguistic Study. (Typological Studies in Language 3). Ed. T. Givón. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1983. 1-41.
_____, ed. Topic Continuity in Discourse: A Quantitative Cross-language Study. (Typological Studies in Language 3). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1983.
González Cobas, Jacinto. "Continuidad topical en la Estoria de España de Alfonso X." Cuadernos de Investigación Filológica 31-32 (2005-2006 [issued 2009]): 7-31.*
Gundel, Janette K. "The Role of Topic and Comment in Linguistic Theory." Ph.D. diss. Austin: U of Texas, 1973.
_____. "Universals of Topic-Comment Structure." In Studies in Syntactic Typology. Ed. M. Hammond, E. A. Moravcsik and J. R. Wirth. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1988. 209-33.
Jiménez Fernández, Ángel. "A Minimalist Approach to Topicalisation and Focalisation." In Estudios de Filología Inglesa en honor de Antonio Garnica. Ed. Francisco Garrudo and Joaquín Comesaña. Sevilla: Universidad de Sevilla, 2005.
Levy, E. "Towards an Objective Definition of 'Discourse Topic'." Papers from the 18th Regional Meeting. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society, 1982. 295-304.
Li, Charles N., ed. Subject and Topic. New York: Academic Press, 1976.
Marín Arrese, Juana I., and Soledad Pérez de Ayala Becerril. "The Use of Topic Formulating Devices in Discourse Topic Management." Actas del XXI Congreso Internacional AEDEAN. Ed. F. Toda et al. Sevilla: U de Sevilla, 1999. 675-80.*
Martínez Caro, Elena, and Angela Downing Rothwell. "Discourse Topic Organisation: Signalling Macro-Topic Boundaries." Actas del XXI Congreso Internacional AEDEAN. Ed. F. Toda et al. Sevilla: U de Sevilla, 1999. 681-87.*
Moran, Christopher. "Sentence Topic in Comment Articles." In Proceedings from the 31st AEDEAN Conference. Ed. M. J. Lorenzo Modia et al. CD-ROM: A Coruña: Universidade da Coruña, 2008. 689-98.*
Moya Guijarro, A. Jesús. "Topicality Chains in Two Discourse Genres." Estudios Ingleses de la Universidad Complutense 9 (2001).
_____. "The Assignment of Topical Status in FDG: A Textual Analysis." In Studies in Functional Discourse Grammar. Ed. J. Lachlan Mackenzie and María A. Gómez-González. Bern: Peter Lang, 2005. 187-218.
_____. "The Introduction of Topics in Two Discourse Genres." Word 56.2 (forthcoming 2005).
_____. "The Continuity of Topics in Journal and Travel Texts. A Discourse Functional Perpective." In Functions of Language. John Benjamins. Forthcoming 2005.
_____. "On Pragmatic Functions and Their Correlation with Syntactic Functions: A Funcionalist Perspective." Atlantis 28.1 (June 2006): 90-28.* (Topic, Biber, Dik)
Ojea López, Ana Isabel. "Topicalización vs. dislocación: algunas precisiones." In Stvdia Patriciae Shaw oblata. Oviedo: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Oviedo, 1991. 2.155-69.*
Ortega Gil, Pablo. "Extended Thematic Progression." Miscelánea 23 (2001): 57-75.*
Partee, Barbara. "Topic, Focus and Quantification." In Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 1. Ithaca (NY): CLC Publications, Cornell U, 1991. 159-87. In Semantics: Critical Concepts in Linguistics. Ed. Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach. Volume VI: Discourse and Dynamics. London: Routledge, 2003.
Reinhart, Tanya. "Pragmatics and Linguistics: An Analysis of Sentence Topics." Philosophica. 27 (1981): 53-94.
Schiffrin, Deborah. "Sociolinguistic Approaches to Discourse: Topic and Reference in Narrative." In Linguistic Change and Contact. Ed. Kathleen Ferrara, Becky Brown, Keith Walters, and John Baugh. Austin: U of Texas P, 1988. 1-17.
Sgall, Peter, E. Hajicova and E. Benesova. Topic, Focus, and Generative Semantics. Krönberg: Skriptor, 1973.
Shibatani, M. "Grammaticization of Topic into Subject." In Approaches to Grammaticalization. Ed. E. Traugott and B. Heine. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1991. 93-133.
Shuy, Roger W. "Topic as the Unit of Analysis in a Criminal Law Case." In Analyzing Discourse: Text and Talk. Ed. Deborah Tannen. Washington (DC): Georgetown UP, 1982. 113-26.
Sgall, Peter, et al. Topic, Focus, and Generative Semantics. Kronberg: Scriptor, 1973.
Tannen, D. "Gender Differences in Topical Coherence: Creating Involvement in Best Friends' Talk." Discourse Processes 13 (1990): 73-90.
Telles Ribeiro, Branca. "Coherence in Psychotic Discourse: Frame and Topic." Diss. Georgetown U, 1988. Rev. as Coherence in Psychotic Discourse. New York: Oxford UP, 1993.
van Oosten, Jeanne. The Nature of Subjects, Topics and Agents: A Cognitive Explanation. Bloomington (IN): Indiana University Linguistics Club, 1986.
See also Focus; Given/New; Presupposition.
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