За дихотожията topic-comment в японския език
About dichotomy topic-comment in Japanese

Summary/Abstract: The topic and comment analysis is a way of looking at information structure, not at grammatical elements. It is an overall system of distinguishing what is being talked about (topic) in actual communication, and what is being introduced as information added (comment) to the topic. The topic and comment structure may roughly be translated ‘as for X, it is Y, meaning that there is a special relationship between X and Y. The topic, being that which is talked about, is different from the subject. When the speaker introduces the subject, he deliberately excludes all other possibilities, which may happen in other time and places than the present “here and now”. And vice-versa, when the speaker introduces the topic, the listener expects a piece of new information. The topic and comment distinction is very similar to the theme and rheme distinction.

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