Focus (definition)
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The focus is the new information (information not already known by the speaker and listener) in a sentence.
See Also
External Links
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- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topic-comment
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focus_(linguistics)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_structure
References
- Crystal, D. (2008) Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. 6th Edition. Wiley-Blackwell.
- Matthews, P. H. (1997) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
