Discourse structure and information structure
Ekaterina Jasinskaja, Jörg Mayer, David Schlangen · publish.UP (University of Potsdam) · 2004
In this paper we review the current state of research on the issue of dis-course structure (DS)/information structure (IS) interface. This eld has received a lot of attention from discourse semanticists and pragmatists, and has made substantial progress in recent years. In this paper we sum-marize the relevant studies. In addition, we look at the issue of DS/IS-interaction at a different levelthat of phonetics. It is known that both information structure and discourse structure can be realized prosodi-cally, but the issue of phonetic interaction between the prosodic devices they employ has hardly ever been discussed in this context. We think that a proper consideration of this aspect of DS/IS-interaction would enrich our understanding of the phenomenon, and hence we formulate some related research-programmatic positions.