New Information

新信息

A term used by some linguists in a two-part analysis of utterances on the basis of information structure; “new” information is opposed to given. “New”, as its name suggests, refers to information which is additional to that already supplied by the previous context of speaking; “given”, by contrast, refers to the information already available.

有些语言学家按信息结构将话段分作两部分，新信息与旧信息对立。顾名思义，“新信息”不是由先前语境提供的信息，而“旧信息”则是已经获知的信息。