Discourse Markers And Modal Particles

Author : Liesbeth Degand,Bert Cornillie,Paola Pietrandrea
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027271228

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Discourse Markers and Modal Particles by Liesbeth Degand,Bert Cornillie,Paola Pietrandrea Pdf

Discourse markers and modal particles are fuzzy linguistic categories that are difficult to describe. The contributions in this volume go beyond this statement. They discuss the intersection between modal particles and discourse markers and examine whether or not it is possible to draw a line between these two types of linguistic expressions. On the basis of new synchronic and diachronic data, from speech and writing, from European and Asian languages or cross-linguistically, the authors answer the question whether discourse markers and modal particles are distinct categories, whether they form a cline, or whether modal particles are a subcategory of discourse markers. This common question shows up throughout all chapters, which makes the book to a coherent whole. By disentangling the complexity of categorizing multifunctional expressions, this book also sheds new light on the processes of meaning extension. The traditional discourse and modal functions are complemented by interactional and textual ones. A must read for functional linguists.

Author : Chiara Fedriani,Andrea Sansó
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027265494

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Pragmatic Markers, Discourse Markers and Modal Particles by Chiara Fedriani,Andrea Sansó Pdf

This book offers new perspectives into the description of the form, meaning and function of Pragmatic Markers, Discourse Markers and Modal Particles in a number of different languages, along with new methods for identifying their ‘prototypical’ instances in situated language contexts, often based on cross-linguistic comparisons. The papers collected in this volume also discuss different factors at play in processes of grammaticalization and pragmaticalization, which include contact-induced change and pragmatic borrowing, socio-interactional functional pressures and sociopragmatic indexicalities, constraints of cognitive processing, together with regularities in semantic change. Putting the traditional issues concerning the status, delimitation and categorization of Pragmatic Markers, Discourse Markers and Modal Particles somewhat off the stage, the eighteen articles collected in this volume deal instead with general questions concerning the development and use of such procedural elements, explored from different approaches, both formal and functional, and from a variety of perspectives – including corpus-based, sociolinguistic, and contrastive perspectives – and offering language-specific synchronic and diachronic studies.

Author : Werner Abraham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107021228

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Modality in Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics by Werner Abraham Pdf

An innovative survey that covers the linguistic questions of modality and mood, offering a new model for the phenomenon.

Author : Pierre-Yves Modicom,Olivier Duplâtre
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027261465

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Information-Structural Perspectives on Discourse Particles by Pierre-Yves Modicom,Olivier Duplâtre Pdf

The articles collected in this volume offer new perspectives into the relevance of notions such as topic, antitopic, contrastive topic, focus, verum focus and theticity for the analysis of the syntax and semantics of modal particles, sentence-final particles and other medial, sentential and illocutive particles. This book addresses three great questions in a variety of languages ranging from Japanese to Mohawk, including Basque, French, German, Italian, Kazakh, Spanish and Turkish, with some insights from English and Russian. The first question is the role played by information-structural strategies such as left dislocations, clefts or the morphological marking of focus in the rise of discourse particles. In the second part, papers are concerned with the relevance of information structure for the study of polysemic and polyfunctional discourse particles. Finally, the contribution of particles to the determination of the information-structural profile of the clause is examined, as well as their role in the information-structural specification of illocutionary types. Language-specific papers alternate with comparative approaches in order to show how newer insights on information structure can help resolve some of the classical issues of the linguistic research on particles.

Author : Uta Lenk
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Discourse markers
ISBN : 3823349384

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Marking Discourse Coherence by Uta Lenk Pdf

Author : Josef Bayer,Volker Struckmeier
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110493481

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Discourse Particles by Josef Bayer,Volker Struckmeier Pdf

Particles have for the longest time been ignored by linguistic research. School-type grammars ignored them since they did not fit into pre-conceived notions of categories, and since they did not seem to enter into grammatical relations commonly discussed in the genre. Only in the last century did some publications discuss particles – and even then only from the perspective of their discourse and pragmatic functions, i.e. their dependance on certain previous contexts, and concluded that the function of particles for the grammar of sentences and their interpretation remains obscure. The current volume presents 11 new articles that take a fresh look at particles: As it turns out, particles inform many aspects of syntax and semantics, too – both diachronically and synchronically: Particles are shown to have fascinating syntactic properties with respect to projection, locality, movement and scope. Their interpretative contributions can be studied with the rigorous methods of formal semantics. Cross-linguistic and diachronic investigations shed new light on the genesis and development of these intriguing – and under-estimated – kinds of lexical elements.

Author : Kerstin Fischer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780080461588

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Approaches to Discourse Particles by Kerstin Fischer Pdf

Approaches to Discourse Particles serves as a unique reference by presenting the spectrum of approaches to discourse particles/markers in their richness and variability, whilst ensuring that the differences and similarities between the approaches are clear and comparable. With the hundreds of studies now published on discourse particles/markers, it is becoming increasingly difficult to make such comparisons. Fischer addresses this problem by asking renowned researchers from different linguistic backgrounds to describe their particular ways of accounting for some of the most important problem areas by addressing issues such as: definition; the functional spectrum of the items considered; the model of polyfunctionality proposed; and the broader framework of the model.Discourse particles fulfil many different functions; they contribute to text structuring, dialogue management, turn-taking, politeness, and more. Their investigation is, thus, relevant from many different perspectives within pragmatics and linguistics as a whole. Approaches to Discourse Particles constitutes an important orientation for newcomers to the field, as well as providing the necessary guidance and reference for the many scholars now working in the growing research community. "Wide-ranging and useful... Places the assumptions underlying divergent approaches in sharp relief." – Lawrence Schourup, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan

Author : Daniël Van Olmen,Jolanta Šinkūnienė
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027259080

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Pragmatic Markers and Peripheries by Daniël Van Olmen,Jolanta Šinkūnienė Pdf

The relation between pragmatic markers and the peripheries of clauses, utterances and/or turns has been a topic of linguistic interest for the last few decades. Many issues continue to be debated, however, such as “how should the notion of periphery be defined?”, “to what extent do pragmatic markers in the left versus the right periphery fulfill different functions?” and “which factors determine the order of multiple pragmatic markers in a periphery?”. This volume brings together a number of studies addressing these and other questions. It presents new data from a diverse range of languages – including less researched ones in this context like Ainu, Latvian and Lithuanian – and on a variety of types of pragmatic marker – including emoji. The volume as a whole offers new insights into, among other things, the subjectivity intersubjectivity peripheries hypothesis, the idea of left-to-right movement and the matrix clauses hypothesis.

Author : Karin Aijmer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1588112845

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English Discourse Particles by Karin Aijmer Pdf

There are few aspects of language which are more problematic than its discourse particles. The present study of discourse particles draws upon data from the London-Lund Corpus to show how the methods and tools of corpora can sharpen their description. The first part of the book provides a picture of the state of the art in discourse particle studies and introduces the theory and methodology for the analysis in the second part of the book. Discourse particles are analysed as elements which have been grammaticalised and as a result have certain properties and uses. The importance of linguistic and contextual cues such as text type, position in the discourse, prosody and collocation for analysing discourse particles is illustrated. The following chapters deal with specific discourse particles ("now," "oh, just, sort of, and that sort of thing, actually") on the basis of their empirical analysis in the London-Lund Corpus. Examples and extended extracts from many different text types are provided to illustrate what discourse particles are doing in discourse.

Author : Werner Abraham
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027250223

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Discourse Particles by Werner Abraham Pdf

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 semantic, pragmatic and syntactic properties of particles in the English and German language.

Author : Remus Gergel,Ingo Reich,Augustin Speyer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027257673

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Particles in German, English, and Beyond by Remus Gergel,Ingo Reich,Augustin Speyer Pdf

Germanic languages have been recognized as having not only intensifying or focus particles, but also so-called modal particles. The relevant items are specialized discourse markers joined by characteristic syntactic properties. After an introductory overview of the complex field, the contributions of the current volume capitalize on, but also work much further beyond the baseline of the established insights. They offer analyses of (a) new data types within and sometimes across several Germanic languages (e.g. varieties/stages of German, Dutch, or Norwegian), encompassing different classes of particles and a variety of syntactic-semantic as well as usage-based aspects; (b) the classical dichotomy between languages like German and English when it comes to the availability of modal particles both synchronically and diachronically; (c) crucial integrated insight from non-Germanic languages such as French, Hungarian, Italian, Mandarin, or Vietnamese. A number of mostly interface-based proposals of several languages as well as further generalizations are put on the table for both expert and novice readers in the field.

Author : Klaus P. Schneider,Anne Barron
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110375022

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Pragmatics of Discourse by Klaus P. Schneider,Anne Barron Pdf

Discourse is language as it occurs, in any form or context, beyond the speech act. It may be written or spoken, monological or dialogical, but there is always a communicative aim or purpose. The present volume provides systematic orientation in the vast field of studying discourse from a pragmatic perspective. It first gives an overview of a range of approaches developed for the analysis of discourse, including, among others, conversation analysis, systemic-functional analysis, genre analysis, critical discourse analysis, corpus-driven approaches and multimodal analysis. The focus is furthermore on functional units in discourse, such as discourse markers, moves, speech act sequences, discourse phases and silence. The final section of the volume examines discourse types and domains, providing a taxonomy of discourse types and focusing on a range of discourse domains, e.g. classroom discourse, medical discourse, legal discourse, electronic discourse. Each article surveys the current state of the art of the respective topic area while also presenting new research findings.

Author : Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027250667

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The Function of Discourse Particles by Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen Pdf

This monograph aims to contribute to linguistic knowledge about the distribution and function of discourse particles, particularly with respect to a small group of particles which are highly frequent in contemporary spoken standard French. The book is divided into two parts. Part 1 (Theory) defines discourse particles as such, and gives a dynamic global approach to their description. Matters such as previous research on discourse particles, related categories of particles, instructional semantics, the difference between speech and writing, the delimitation of discourse units, competing approaches to discourse structure and to coherence, and methodology are discussed extensively. Part 2 (Description) offers in-depth corpus-based analyses of six French discourse particles, namely bon, ben, eh bien, puis, donc, and alors, as used in non-elicted native-speaker interaction. The book is of interest to linguists doing research in semantics, pragmatics and discourse studies.

Author : Kerstin Fischer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110828641

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From Cognitive Semantics to Lexical Pragmatics by Kerstin Fischer Pdf

Author : Alexander Haselow,Sylvie Hancil
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027259899

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Studies at the Grammar-Discourse Interface by Alexander Haselow,Sylvie Hancil Pdf

This book investigates phenomena at the grammar–discourse interface with a strong focus on discourse markers, whose development and concrete uses in a given language tend to be based on a close interplay of grammatical and discourse-related forces. The topics range from the transition of linguistic signs “out of” sentence grammar and “into” the domain of discourse to differences between more grammatical vs. more discourse-pragmatic expressions in terms of structural behavior and cognitive processing, and the different, intricate ways in which the usage conditions and meanings of grammatical constituents or structural units are affected by the discourse context in which they are used. The twelve studies in this book are based on fresh empirical data from languages such as English, Basque, Korean, Japanese and French and involve the study of linguistic expressions and structures such as pragmatic markers and particles, comment clauses, expletives, adverbial connectors, and expressives.