Salience

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This volume explores the role of salience in discourse, offering a comprehensive examination of various perspectives and functions. It employs multidisciplinary approaches, differing in theoretical proposals and research focuses. Topics include entity-based salience, discourse-structural salience of utterances, and extra-linguistic factors influencing discourse salience. The book is organized into three sections. Part I delves into discourse referents and the selection of referring expressions, addressing themes such as salience and demonstrativity in Russian, the relationship between discourse salience and grammatical voice in Eastern Khanty, the interplay of syntactic and semantic prominence, and a computational framework for salience metrics. Part II shifts focus to linguistic structures at or above the clause level, examining the salience of discourse segments in relation to discourse relations and the positioning of verb arguments in Old High German. Part III broadens the discussion to include extra-linguistic salience in discourse processing, covering topics like visual salience in situated dialogue, salience marking through hypertextual links, and salience derived from mental representations of described situations. The concept of salience is significant across discourse studies in theoretical linguistics, computational linguistics, and psycholinguistics.