Cover -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC page -- Dedication page -- Contents -- Index of tables and figures -- Index of appendixes -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- Part I. Theoretical and methodological framework -- 2. Preliminary definitions -- 3. The role of discourse markers in narrative structure -- 4. The study -- Part II. Pragmatic markers in narrative structure -- 5. Pragmatic markers in English narrative structure -- 6. Pragmatic markers in Catalan narrative structure -- 7. Contrastive analysis of English and Catalan pragmatic markers -- 8. Conclusions -- Notes -- Appendixes -- References -- Index -- The Pragmatics & Beyond New Series
Summary
This book presents the multifunctional nature of pragmatic discourse markers in English and Catalan oral narratives from the point of view of text linguistics and contrastive analysis. It is argued that English and Catalan markers are distributed and operate differently at four different levels in the varied discourse structures of the text, i.e. at the ideational, the rhetorical, the sequential, and the inferential levels. The results confirm the distinctions in functional-systemic levels, and indicate that the nature of the two languages has a direct influence on the presence and nature of m
