On Perspectiving in Cognitive Grammar and Communicative Dynamism

• Main Author: Emanuel Sunarto
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universitas Sanata Dharma 2017-01-01
• Series: LLT Journal: A Journal on Language and Language Teaching
• Subjects: perspective, importance, focus, informative value, rhematization
• Online Access: http://e-journal.usd.ac.id/index.php/LLT/article/view/317

The article is concerned with the concept of ‘perspective’ in Cognitive Grammar and Communicative Dynamism. To the former, ‘perspective’ is understood in the realm of cognitive concepts such as space, motion, locationality, directionality, importance, and focus ascribable to a particular sentence segment. To the latter, ‘perspectiving’ is a matter of valuating, viz. assigning informational value to a sentence segment as a part of a distributional field of communicative dynamism. The two streams of thought evidently hold different constructs per-taining to the term ‘perspective’: conceptual-categorial on the one hand, and functional-informational on the other. However, the two seem to agree when ‘perspectiving’ is concerned with the notion of importance and focus or rhematization.   DOI: https://doi.org/10.24071/llt.2012.150106