A Contrastive View Of Discourse Markers

Author : Laure Lansari
Publisher : Springer
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783030248963

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A Contrastive View of Discourse Markers by Laure Lansari Pdf

This book is a comparative corpus-based study of discourse markers based on verbs of saying in English and French. Based on a wide comparable web corpus, the book investigates how discourse markers work in discourse, and compares their differences of position, scope and collocations both cross-linguistically and within single languages. The author positions this study within the wider epistemological background of the French-speaking ‘enunciative’ tradition and the English-speaking ‘pragmatic’ tradition, and it will be of particular interest to students and scholars of semantics, pragmatics and contrastive linguistics.

Author : Dirk Siepmann
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0415349494

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Discourse Markers Across Languages by Dirk Siepmann Pdf

This book offers a corpus-based comparative study of an almost entirely unexplored set of multi-word lexical items serving pragmatic or text-structuring functions. Part One provides a descriptive account of multi-word discourse markers in written English, French and German, focussing on dicussion of interlingual equivalence. Part Two examines the use of multi-word markers by non-native speakers of English and discusses lexicographical and pedagogical implications.

Author : Deborah Schiffrin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1988-02-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781316582305

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Discourse Markers by Deborah Schiffrin Pdf

Discourse markers - the particles oh, well, now, then, you know and I mean, and the connectives so, because, and, but and or - perform important functions in conversation. Dr Schiffrin's approach is firmly interdisciplinary, within linguistics and sociology, and her rigourous analysis clearly demonstrates that neither the markers, nor the discourse within which they function, can be understood from one point of view alone, but only as an integration of structural, semantic, pragmatic, and social factors. The core of the book is a comparative analysis of markers within conversational discourse collected by Dr Schiffrin during sociolinguistic fieldwork. The study concludes that markers provide contextual coordinates which aid in the production and interpretation of coherent conversation at both local and global levels of organization. It raises a wide range of theoretical and methodological issues important to discourse analysis - including the relationship between meaning and use, the role of qualitative and quantitative analyses - and the insights it offers will be of particular value to readers confronting the very substantial problems presented by the search for a model of discourse which is based on what people actually say, mean, and do with words in everyday social interaction.

Author : Karin Aijmer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027286642

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Contrastive Pragmatics by Karin Aijmer Pdf

We have recently seen a broadening of pragmatics to new areas and to the study of more than one language. This is illustrated by the present volume on Contrastive Pragmatics which brings together a number of articles originally presented at the 10th International Pragmatics Conference in Göteborg in 2007. The contributions deal with pragmatic phenomena such as speech acts, discourse markers and modality in different language pairs using theoretical approaches such as politeness theory, Conversation Analysis, Appraisal Theory, grammaticalization and cultural textology. Also discourse practices and genres may differ across cultures as illustrated by the study of TV news shows in different countries. Contrastive pragmatics also includes the comparative study of pragmatic phenomena from a foreign language perspective, a new area with implications for language teaching and intercultural communication. The contributions to this volume were originally published in Languages in Contrast 9:1 (2009).

Author : Montserrat González
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027253644

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Pragmatic Markers in Oral Narrative by Montserrat González Pdf

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 markers in the texts. The study is built up on a corpus of English and Catalan elicited narratives of native speakers, adopting the sociolinguistic Labovian framework adapted to the situation of educated adults. The study results in a better understanding of the contribution of pragmatic markers to the organization and the interpretation of oral texts, bringing insights from relevance and cognitive approaches to text structure, and moving from descriptive to theoretical levels of analysis and discussion.

Author : Elizabeth Closs Traugott
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027257925

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Discourse Structuring Markers in English by Elizabeth Closs Traugott Pdf

This book is a contribution to the growing field of diachronic construction grammar. Focus is on corpus evidence for the importance of including conventionalized pragmatics within construction grammar and suggestions for how to do so. The empirical domain is the development of Discourse Structuring Markers in English such as after all, also, all the same, by the way, further and moreover (also known as Discourse Markers). The term Discourse Structuring Markers highlights their use not only to connect discourse segments but also to shape discourse coherence and understanding. Monofunctional Discourse Structuring Markers like further, instead, moreover are distinguished from multifunctional ones like after all and by the way. Drawing on usage-based work on constructionalization and constructional changes, the book is in three parts: foundational concepts, case studies, and currently open issues in diachronic construction grammar. These open issues are how to incorporate the concepts subjectification and intersubjectification into a constructional account of change, whether position in a clause is a construction, and the nature of constructional networks and how they change.

Author : Abdalmuttaleb M. A. Musleh Al-Sartawi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031560156

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Business Analytical Capabilities and Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Analytics: Applications and Challenges in the Digital Era, Volume 1 by Abdalmuttaleb M. A. Musleh Al-Sartawi Pdf

Author : Simone Müller
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027253811

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Discourse Markers in Native and Non-native English Discourse by Simone Müller Pdf

While discourse markers have been examined in some detail, little is known about their usage by non-native speakers. This book provides valuable insights into the functions of four discourse markers (so, well, you know and like) in native and non-native English discourse, adding to both discourse marker literature and to studies in the pragmatics of learner language. It presents a thorough analysis on the basis of a substantial parallel corpus of spoken language. In this corpus, American students who are native speakers of English and German non-native speakers of English retell and discuss a silent movie. Each of the main chapters of the book is dedicated to one discourse marker, giving a detailed analysis of the functions this discourse marker fulfills in the corpus and a quantitative comparison between the two speaker groups. The book also develops a two-level model of discourse marker functions comprising a textual and an interactional level.

Author : Ludivine Crible
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027264305

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Discourse Markers and (Dis)fluency by Ludivine Crible Pdf

Spoken language is characterized by the occurrence of linguistic devices such as discourse markers (e.g. so, well, you know, I mean) and other so-called “disfluent” phenomena, which reflect the temporal nature of the cognitive mechanisms underlying speech production and comprehension. The purpose of this book is to distinguish between strategic vs. symptomatic uses of these markers on the basis of their combination, function and distribution across several registers in English and French. Through deep quantitative and qualitative analyses of manually annotated features in the new DisFrEn corpus, this usage-based study provides (i) an exhaustive portrait of discourse markers in English and French and (ii) a scale of (dis)fluency against which different configurations of discourse markers can be diagnosed as rather fluent or disfluent. By bringing together discourse markers and (dis)fluency under one coherent framework, this book is a unique contribution to corpus-based pragmatics, discourse analysis and crosslinguistic fluency research.

Author : Katrin Pfadenhauer, Evelyn Wiesinger
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783111248998

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Romance motion verbs in language change by Katrin Pfadenhauer, Evelyn Wiesinger Pdf

Author : Agnès Celle,Ruth Huart
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007-06-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027292261

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Connectives as Discourse Landmarks by Agnès Celle,Ruth Huart Pdf

This set of eleven articles, by linguists from four different European countries and a variety of theoretical backgrounds, takes a new look at the discourse functions of a number of English connectives, from simple coordinators (and, but) to phrases of varying complexity (after all, the fact is that). Using authentic spoken and written data from varied sources, the authors explore the ways in which current uses of connectives result from the interaction of syntax, semantics and prosody, both over time and through diversity of discourse situations. Most adopt an integrative approach in which speaker-listener or writer-reader relationships are viewed as part and parcel of the linguistic properties of each marker. Because it combines functional, generative and enunciative approaches into a coherent whole with a common explanatory aim, this book will be of interest to linguists, corpus-linguists and all those who investigate the semantics-pragmatics interface.

Author : Friedemann Vogel
Publisher : Duncker & Humblot
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783428554232

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Legal Linguistics Beyond Borders: Language and Law in a World of Media, Globalisation and Social Conflicts by Friedemann Vogel Pdf

The world of law has changed in the last decades: it has become more globalized, multilingual and digital. The sections and contributions of this volume continue the interdisciplinary discussion about the challenges of this change for theory and practice of law and for the International Language and Law Association (ILLA) relaunched in 2017. First, the book gives a broad overview to the research field of legal linguistics, its history, research directions and open questions in different parts of the world (United States, Africa, Italy, Spain, Germany, Nordic countries and Russia). The second section consists of contributions about the relation of language, law and justice in a globalized world with a focus on multilingual and supranational law in the EU. The third section focuses on digitalization and mediatization of the law, the last section reports about the discussion at the ILLA relaunch conference in 2017.

Author : Anna-Brita Stenström,Annette Myre Jørgensen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027254290

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Youngspeak in a Multilingual Perspective by Anna-Brita Stenström,Annette Myre Jørgensen Pdf

Introduction / Anna-Brita Stenström and Annette Myre Jörgensen -- Identity construction: On young women's prosodic construction of identity: evidence from Greek conversational narratives / Argiris Archakis and Dimitris Papazachariou -- Now he thinks he's listening to rock music: identity construction among German teenage girls / Janet Spreckels -- Multilingual practices and identity negotiations among Turkish-speaking young people in a diasporic context / Vally Lytra and Taskin Baraç -- Particular expressions: Lexical innovations in Madrid's teenage talk: some intensifiers / Juan A. Martínez López -- En plan used as a hedge in Spanish teenage language / Annette Myre Jörgensen -- Languages in contrast: a proposal for comparative research on youth language with an outline of diatopic-contrast research within the Hispanic world / Klaus Zimmermann -- Pragmatic markers in contrast: Spanish pues nada and English anyway / Anna-Brita Stenström -- Anglicisms in the informal speech of Norwegian and Chilean adolescents / Eli-Marie Drange -- Similarities and differences between slang in Kaunas and London teenagers' speech / Jolanta Legaudaite

Author : Karin Aijmer,Diana Lewis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783319545561

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Contrastive Analysis of Discourse-pragmatic Aspects of Linguistic Genres by Karin Aijmer,Diana Lewis Pdf

This volume will give readers insight into how genres are characterised by the patterns of frequency and distribution of linguistic features across a number of European languages. The material presented in this book will also stimulate further corpus-based contrastive research including more languages, more genres and different types of corpora. This is the first special issue of the Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics, a publication that addresses the interface between the two disciplines and offers a platform to scholars who combine both methodologies to present rigorous and interdisciplinary findings about language in real use. Corpus linguistics and Pragmatics have traditionally represented two paths of scientific thought, parallel but often mutually exclusive and excluding. Corpus Linguistics can offer a meticulous methodology based on mathematics and statistics, while Pragmatics is characterized by its effort in the interpretation of intended meaning in real language.

Author : Carol Lynn Moder,Aida Martinovic
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027230781

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Discourse Across Languages and Cultures by Carol Lynn Moder,Aida Martinovic Pdf

This volume seeks to answers such questions as: how is conscious experience translated into discourse? How are foregrounding and backgrounding accomplished? What is the function of features like lexical choice and referential choice? And many more.