Demonstratives In Discourse

Author : Åshild Næss,Anna Margetts ,Yvonne Treis
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 360 pages
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Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783961102860

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Demonstratives in discourse by Åshild Næss,Anna Margetts ,Yvonne Treis Pdf

This volume explores the use of demonstratives in the structuring and management of discourse, and their role as engagement expressions, from a crosslinguistic perspective. It seeks to establish which types of discourse-related functions are commonly encoded by demonstratives, beyond the well-established reference-tracking and deictic uses, and also investigates which members of demonstrative paradigms typically take on certain functions. Moreover, it looks at the roles of non-deictic demonstratives, that is, members of the paradigm which are dedicated e.g. to contrastive, recognitional, or anaphoric functions and do not express deictic distinctions. Several of the studies also focus on manner demonstratives, which have been little studied from a crosslinguistic perspective. The volume thus broadens the scope of investigation of demonstratives to look at how their core functions interact with a wider range of discourse functions in a number of different languages. The volume covers languages from a range of geographical locations and language families, including Cushitic and Mande languages in Africa, Oceanic and Papuan languages in the Pacific region, Algonquian and Guaykuruan in the Americas, and Germanic, Slavic and Finno-Ugric languages in the Eurasian region. It also includes two papers taking a broader typological approach to specific discourse functions of demonstratives.

Author : Åshild Næss,Anna Margetts,Yvonne Treis
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783961102877

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Demonstratives in discourse by Åshild Næss,Anna Margetts,Yvonne Treis Pdf

This volume explores the use of demonstratives in the structuring and management of discourse, and their role as engagement expressions, from a crosslinguistic perspective. It seeks to establish which types of discourse-related functions are commonly encoded by demonstratives, beyond the well-established reference-tracking and deictic uses, and also investigates which members of demonstrative paradigms typically take on certain functions. Moreover, it looks at the roles of non-deictic demonstratives, that is, members of the paradigm which are dedicated e.g. to contrastive, recognitional, or anaphoric functions and do not express deictic distinctions. Several of the studies also focus on manner demonstratives, which have been little studied from a crosslinguistic perspective. The volume thus broadens the scope of investigation of demonstratives to look at how their core functions interact with a wider range of discourse functions in a number of different languages. The volume covers languages from a range of geographical locations and language families, including Cushitic and Mande languages in Africa, Oceanic and Papuan languages in the Pacific region, Algonquian and Guaykuruan in the Americas, and Germanic, Slavic and Finno-Ugric languages in the Eurasian region. It also includes two papers taking a broader typological approach to specific discourse functions of demonstratives.

Author : Holger Diessel
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027229427

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Demonstratives by Holger Diessel Pdf

All languages have demonstratives, but their form, meaning and use vary tremendously across the languages of the world. This book presents the first large-scale analysis of demonstratives from a cross-linguistic and diachronic perspective. It is based on a representative sample of 85 languages. The first part of the book analyzes demonstratives from a synchronic point of view, examining their morphological structures, semantic features, syntactic functions, and pragmatic uses in spoken and written discourse. The second part concentrates on diachronic issues, in particular on the development of demonstratives into grammatical markers. Across languages demonstratives provide a frequent historical source for definite articles, relative and third person pronouns, nonverbal copulas, sentence connectives, directional preverbs, focus markers, expletives, and many other grammatical markers. The book describes the different mechanisms by which demonstratives grammaticalize and argues that the evolution of grammatical markers from demonstratives is crucially distinct from other cases of grammaticalization.

Author : Stephen C. Levinson,Sarah Cutfield,Michael J. Dunn,N. J. Enfield,Sérgio Meira
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108424288

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Demonstratives in Cross-Linguistic Perspective by Stephen C. Levinson,Sarah Cutfield,Michael J. Dunn,N. J. Enfield,Sérgio Meira Pdf

The definitive guide to demonstratives, which play a key role in language acquisition and use.

Author : Holger Diessel
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1999-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027298577

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Demonstratives by Holger Diessel Pdf

All languages have demonstratives, but their form, meaning and use vary tremendously across the languages of the world. This book presents the first large-scale analysis of demonstratives from a cross-linguistic and diachronic perspective. It is based on a representative sample of 85 languages. The first part of the book analyzes demonstratives from a synchronic point of view, examining their morphological structures, semantic features, syntactic functions, and pragmatic uses in spoken and written discourse. The second part concentrates on diachronic issues, in particular on the development of demonstratives into grammatical markers. Across languages demonstratives provide a frequent historical source for definite articles, relative and third person pronouns, nonverbal copulas, sentence connectives, directional preverbs, focus markers, expletives, and many other grammatical markers. The book describes the different mechanisms by which demonstratives grammaticalize and argues that the evolution of grammatical markers from demonstratives is crucially distinct from other cases of grammaticalization.

Author : Ritva Laury
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1997-07-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027275813

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Demonstratives in Interaction by Ritva Laury Pdf

This book concerns one of the paradigm examples of grammaticalization, the development of a definite article from a demonstrative determiner. Although standard written Finnish has no articles, the demonstrative se is currently emerging as a definite article in spoken Finnish. This book describes and explains the developing use of se based on a database consisting of spoken narratives from three different periods spanning the last one hundred years. The author proposes that the development from demonstrative to article has its roots in the way that speakers ordinarily use demonstratives in conversation, and provides an analysis of the use of se and the two other Finnish demonstratives, tämä and tuo in a corpus of multi-party conversations, showing that speakers of Finnish use demonstratives to focus attention on important referents and to express and negotiate access to them in the interactive context of ongoing talk, and not primarily to talk about how near or far referents are. The development of se into a general marker of identifiability is shown to be connected with both the focusing function of demonstratives as well as its use for referents which the speaker considers accessible to the addressee.

Author : Barbara A. Fox
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027229274

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Studies in Anaphora by Barbara A. Fox Pdf

The last 15 years has seen an explosion of research on the topic of anaphora. Studies of anaphora have been important to our understanding of cognitive processes, the relationships between social interaction and grammar, and of directionality in diachronic change. The contributions to this volume represent the “next generation” of studies in anaphora — defined broadly as those morpho-syntactic forms available to speakers for formulating reference — taking as their starting point the foundation of research done in the 1980s. These studies examine in detail, and with a richness of methods and theories, what patterns of anaphoric usage can reveal to us about cognition, social interaction, and language change.

Author : Yi’an Wu
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004-09-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027295194

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Spatial Demonstratives in English and Chinese by Yi’an Wu Pdf

As a subject of universal appeal, spatial demonstratives have been studied extensively from a variety of disciplines. What marks the present study as distinct is that it is an English-Chinese comparative study set in a cognitive-linguistic framework and that the methodology features a parallel corpora-based, discourse analysis approach. The framework illuminates the nature of the demonstratives’ basic and extended meaning and use, the connections between them, and the mechanisms that govern and constrain their trends of extension. The corpora place the English and Chinese demonstratives in comparable discourse contexts and processes, providing an “ecological” environment for the observation of how their behavior fits into the respective structural and discourse systems of the two languages. The study also illuminates important issues such as the subjectivity of language, language as a representational system and a vehicle of communication, the interface between form and function, and the role of context in discourse comprehension.

Author : Deniz Zeyrek,Umut Özge
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110686784

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Discourse Meaning by Deniz Zeyrek,Umut Özge Pdf

The volume aims to bring together original, unpublished papers on discourse structure and meaning from different frameworks or theoretical perspectives to address research questions revolving around issues instigated by Turkish. Another goal is to offer methodologically different solutions for the research gaps identified in individual chapters. The contributions are based on empirical generalizations and make use of, for example, computerized corpora as the data, examples compiled from naturally occurring discourse, or data gathered in experimental conditions. Hence, the book has a firm theoretical standing and it is empirically well-grounded. The collection is expected to be of direct interest to the community of scholars and researchers in discourse structure and semantics as well as corpus linguistics. It will appeal to undergraduate and graduate students and all interested readers, offering them a fresh view on various discourse-related phenomena from the perspective of Turkish.

Author : Barbara Kryk
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : English language
ISBN : 3820498397

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On Deixis in English and Polish by Barbara Kryk Pdf

Deixis verges on the borderline of philosophy, semantics and pragmatics. Since no satisfactory theory of deixis has been proposed so far, this book gives a critical examination of the state of the art and suggests a solution within the framework of discourse analysis. The deictic systems of English and Polish are compared in termes of algorithms, which determine the distribution of demonstrative pronouns in the two languages. Many difficulties found in other approaches can be escaped through the application of algorithms accounting for the speaker's choices in his use of demonstratives during the discourse flow.

Author : Mari Johanne Bordal Hertzenberg
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110401943

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Third Person Reference in Late Latin by Mari Johanne Bordal Hertzenberg Pdf

This study describes third person reference in the fourth century Latin text commonly known as the Itinerarium Egeriae, focusing on what is traditionally labelled demonstratives (hic, iste, ille, is, ipse and idem), bare NPs, and null pronouns.

Author : Bernd Heine,Tania Kuteva
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2006-06-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191538117

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The Changing Languages of Europe by Bernd Heine,Tania Kuteva Pdf

The languages and dialects of Europe, this book shows, are becoming increasingly alike. Furthermore this unifying process goes at least as far back as the Roman empire, is accelerating, and affects every one of Europe's 150 or so languages including those of different families such as Basque and Finnish. The changes are by no means restricted to lexical borrowing but involve every grammatical aspect of the language. They are usually so minute that neither native speakers nor trained linguists notice them. But they accumulate and give rise to new grammatical structures that lead in turn to new patterns of areal relationship. Professor Heine and Professor Kuteva look for the causes of linguistic change in cultural and economic exchanges across national and regional boundaries and in the processes that occur when speakers learn or are in close contact with another language. Testing their data and conclusions against findings from elsewhere in the world, the authors reconstruct and reveal when, how, and why common grammatical structures have evolved and continue to evolve in processes of change that will, they argue, transform the linguistic landscape of Europe. The book is written in clear, non-technical language. It will appeal to scholars and students of language change and variation in Europe and elsewhere. It will also interest everyone concerned to understand the nature of language and language change.

Author : Holger Diessel,Kenny Coventry,Harmen Gudde,Olga Capirci
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889667826

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Demonstratives, Deictic Pointing and the Conceptualization of Space by Holger Diessel,Kenny Coventry,Harmen Gudde,Olga Capirci Pdf

Author : Regina Weinert
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007-07-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781441109262

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Spoken Language Pragmatics by Regina Weinert Pdf

This volume provides a detailed analysis of the relationships between form and function in spontaneous spoken language. The contributors analyse English, German and Spanish data to present a multilingual perspective on the complexities facing speakers in a variety of contexts. Through an examination of the language of everyday conversation, interviews, consultations, task-based dialogues, football commentaries, radio-play productions and intercultural conversations, the book demonstrates the effect of informational, discourse-external and personal factors on form and shows how speakers position themselves in relation to their discourse, orchestrate different tasks, move between different 'voices', and negotiate meaning. The result is a comprehensive analysis of the multiple layers of spontaneous spoken language. Spoken Language Pragmatics presents research that will be of interest to academics working in linguistics, applied linguistics, discourse analysis and pragmatics.

Author : Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald,Robert L. Bradshaw,Luca Ciucci,Pema Wangdi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110789898

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Celebrating Indigenous Voice by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald,Robert L. Bradshaw,Luca Ciucci,Pema Wangdi Pdf

Every society thrives on stories, legends and myths. This volume explores the linguistic devices employed in the astoundingly rich narrative traditions in the tropical hot-spots of linguistic and cultural diversity, and the ways in which cultural changes and new means of communication affect narrative genres and structures. It focusses on linguistic and cultural facets of the narratives in the areas of linguistic diversity across the tropics and surrounding areas — New Guinea, Northern Australia, Siberia, and also the Tibeto-Burman region. The introduction brings together the recurrent themes in the grammar and the substance of the narratives. The twelve contributions to the volume address grammatical forms and categories deployed in organizing the narrative and interweaving the protagonists and the narrator. These include quotations, person of the narrator and the protagonist, mirativity, demonstratives, and clause chaining. The contributors also address the kinds of narratives told, their organization and evolution in time and space, under the impact of post-colonial experience and new means of communication via social media. The volume highlights the importance of documenting narrative tradition across indigenous languages.