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What is Salience?

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AbstractA commonly used concept in linguistics is salience. Oftentimes it is used without definition, and the meaning of the concept is repeatedly assumed to be self-explanatory. The definitions that are provided may vary greatly from one operationalization of salience to the next. In order to find out whether it is possible to postulate an overarching working definition of linguistic salience that subsumes usage across linguistic subdomains, we review these different operationalizations of linguistic salience. This article focuses on salience in sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics, second-language acquisition (SLA), and semantics. In this article, we give an overview of how these fields operationalize salience. Finally, we discuss correlations and contradictions between the different operationalizations.

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Vincent Boswijk Matt Coler

Open Linguistics

Title: What is Salience?

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AbstractA commonly used concept in linguistics is salience.

Oftentimes it is used without definition, and the meaning of the concept is repeatedly assumed to be self-explanatory.

The definitions that are provided may vary greatly from one operationalization of salience to the next.

In order to find out whether it is possible to postulate an overarching working definition of linguistic salience that subsumes usage across linguistic subdomains, we review these different operationalizations of linguistic salience.

This article focuses on salience in sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics, second-language acquisition (SLA), and semantics.

In this article, we give an overview of how these fields operationalize salience.

Finally, we discuss correlations and contradictions between the different operationalizations.

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