Topic (definition)

Topics are the old information (information already known by the speaker and listener) in a sentence.

See Also

• Information Structure (definition)
• Focus (definition)
• Pragmatics (definition)

External Links

The link below takes you away from the Gaelic Wiki to Wikipedia. Since wikipedia pages can be edited by anyone, they often contain inaccurate information. So be careful!

• 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.