| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 498 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Studies in pragmatics ; 1 |
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Studies in pragmatics ; 1.
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| Contents |
Towards an understanding of the spectrum of approaches to discourse particles : introduction to the volume / Kerstin Fischer -- A dynamic polysemy approach to the lexical semantics of discourse markers : with an exemplary analysis of French 'toujours' / Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen -- Discourse markers in English : a discourse-pragmatic view / Diana M. Lewis -- The rise of discourse markers in Italian : a specific type of language change / Richard Waltereit -- A functional approach to the study of discourse markers / Salvador Pons BorderÃa -- Pragmatic markers in translation : a methodological proposal / Karin Aijmer [and others] -- The description of text relation markers in the Geneva model of discourse organization / Eddy Roulet -- A dynamic approach to discourse particles / Henk Zeevat -- A relevance-theoretic approach to discourse particles in Singapore English / Ler Soon Lay Vivien -- From procedural meaning to processing requirement / Thanh Nyan -- Towards a theory of discourse markers / Bruce Fraser -- What are particles good for? / Harald Weydt -- The natural semantic metalanguage approach to discourse markers / Catherine E. Travis -- Epistemic modalities and the discourse particles of Singapore / Anthea Fraser Gupta -- Integrating prosodic and contextual cues in the interpretation of discourse markers / Li-chiung Yang -- Formal properties of a subset of discourse markers : connectives / Corinne Rossari -- Discourse marker research and theory : revisiting 'and' / Deborah Schiffrin -- Discourse markers as attentional cues at discourse transitions / Gisela Redeker -- A dynamic-interactional approach to discourse markers / Barbara Frank-Job -- Discourse particles as morphemes and as constructions / François Nemo -- Discourse particles and modal particles as grammatical elements / Gabriele Diewald -- Frames, constructions, and invariant meanings : the functional polysemy of discourse particles / Kerstin Fischer -- Discourse markers in Italian : towards a "compositional" meaning / Carla Bazzanella |
| Summary |
Presents the spectrum of approaches to discourse particles / markers, whilst ensuring that the differences and similarities between the approaches are clear and comparable. This book features researchers from different linguistic backgrounds, describing their particular ways of accounting for some of the most important problem areas |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-498) |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Discourse markers.
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REFERENCE.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Vocabulary.
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Discourse markers
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Fischer, Kerstin, 1966-
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| ISBN |
0080461581 |
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9780080461588 |
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9780080447377 |
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0080447376 |
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