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Title Discourse particles : descriptive and theoretical investigations on the logical, syntactic, and pragmatic properties of discourse particles in German / edited by Werner Abraham
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1991

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 338 pages) : illustrations
Series Pragmatics & beyond, 0922-842X ; new ser., 12
Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 12. 0922-842X
Contents DISCOURSE PARTICLES; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Foreword; Introduction; Identical values in conflicting roles: The use of German ausgerechnet, eben, genau and gerade as focus particles; Focusing and backgrounding operators; Schon -- erst -- noch: An integrated analysis; On the semantics of modal particles; 'Wir sind ja doch alte Bekannte' The use of Germanja and doch as modal particles; Discourse particles in German: How does their illocutive force come about?; German particles in a modular grammar: Neurolinguistic evidence
Summary This book is about particles in the narrower sense of the word as opposed to the broader meaning covering all uninflected words of a language. In the narrower meaning of the linguistic term particles can be distinguished between logical, or scalar particles and modal, or pragmatic particles. The semantic, pragmatic and syntactic properties of modal particles differ vastly from those of the scalar particles, on the one hand, and their homonymic counterparts functioning in different syntactic categories, on the other hand. The contributions to this volume offer the latest research on the semanti
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Subject German language -- Particles -- Congresses
German language -- Interjections -- Congresses
German language -- Spoken German -- Congresses
German language -- Particles -- Congresses
German language -- Interjections -- Congresses
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- German.
German language -- Interjections
German language -- Particles
German language -- Spoken German
Modalpartikel
Textkohärenz
Kongress
Partikels.
Spreektaal.
Duits.
Allemand (langue) -- Particules -- Congrès.
Allemand (langue) -- Interjections -- Congrès.
Allemand (langue) -- Langage parlé -- Congrès.
Linguistique.
Enonciation (linguistique)
Argumentation (linguistique)
Deutsch.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Abraham, Werner
LC no. 90028425
ISBN 9789027283313
9027283311