Discourse Pragmatics And The Verb

Author : Suzanne Fleischman,Linda R. Waugh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781315403564

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Discourse Pragmatics and the Verb by Suzanne Fleischman,Linda R. Waugh Pdf

First published in 1990, this collection investigates grammatical categories associated with the verb as they are used by speakers and writers in real discourses and texts. Focusing on tense, aspect, mood, and voice in French, Spanish, and Italian, each chapter underscores the importance of context in our understanding of how grammatical categories work. Above and beyond their basic ‘grammatical functions’, categories of the verb are shown to operate in such capacities as structuring information in discourse, establishing point of view in a text, and creating textual cohesion. Importantly, this volume reflects the crucial role discourse-pragmatics factors play in our interpretation of the meanings of categories of grammar.

Author : Ellen Contini-Morava
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-22
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783110889031

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Discourse Pragmatics and Semantic Categorization by Ellen Contini-Morava Pdf

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Author : Doris L. Payne
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110847284

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The Pragmatics of Word Order by Doris L. Payne Pdf

The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics.

Author : John H. Connolly,Roel M. Vismans,Christopher S. Butler,Richard A. Gatward
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110812237

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Discourse and Pragmatics in Functional Grammar by John H. Connolly,Roel M. Vismans,Christopher S. Butler,Richard A. Gatward Pdf

The contents of this volume are a selection from the papers given at the Sixth International Conference on Functional Grammar (ICFG), which was held in York, at the University College of Ripon and York St John, from 18 to 22 August, 1994. Functional Grammar as understood in the ICFGs and in this volume is the linguistic model as proposed by Simon Dik, and to date most extensively described and discussed in Dik (1989). The indebtedness of the FG-community to Simon Dik, who died six months after the conference was held, is great indeed. The editors hope that this volume is a fitting tribute to his work.

Author : Co Vet,Carl Vetters
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110902617

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Tense and Aspects in Discourse by Co Vet,Carl Vetters Pdf

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.

Author : Robert E. Longacre
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781489901620

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The Grammar of Discourse by Robert E. Longacre Pdf

In that The Anatomy of Speech Notions (1976) was the precursor to The Grammar of Discourse (1983), this revision embodies a third "edition" of some of the material that is found here. The original intent of the 1976 volume was to construct a hierarchical arrangement of notional categories, which find surface realization in the grammatical constructions of the various languages of the world. The idea was to marshal the categories that every analyst-regardless of theoretical bent-had to take account of as cognitive entities. The volume began with a couple of chapters on what was then popularly known as "case grammar," then expanded upward and downward to include other notional categories on other levels. Chapters on dis course, monologue, and dialogue were buried in the center of the volume. In the 1983 volume, the chapters on monologue and dialogue discourse were moved to the fore of the book and the chapters on case grammar were made less prominent; the volume was then renamed The Grammar of Discourse. The current revision features more clearly than its predecessors the intersection of discourse and pragmatic concerns with grammatical structures on various levels. It retains and expands much of the former material but includes new material reflecting current advances in such topics as salience clines for discourse, rhetorical relations, paragraph structures, transitivity, ergativity, agency hierarchy, and word order typologies.

Author : Klaus P. Schneider,Anne Barron
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 44,8 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 : M. Bolkestein,Caspar de Groot,J. Lachlan Mackenzie
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110846362

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Syntax and Pragmatics in Functional Grammar by M. Bolkestein,Caspar de Groot,J. Lachlan Mackenzie Pdf

Author : Nils B. Thelin
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027250124

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Verbal Aspect in Discourse by Nils B. Thelin Pdf

In the light of growing insights into the universal temporal-semantic nature of aspectual distinctions, today's aspectology has broadened its attention from restrictedly event-defining functions of aspect on the sentence level towards its primary perspectival functions on the discourse/situation level. Hereby it attempts to relate these functions to each other in ways that stimulate consistently language processing on a more solid perceptual-conceptual and pragmatic basis. Reflecting in various ways this general tendency. The 13 papers collected in this volume are oriented to four fields of research: (1) Developmental properties of aspect and tense; (2) Ideo-pragmatic and conceptual-semantic correlates of aspect and the perspectival organisation of discourse; (3) Aspect, case and discourse; (4) and Aspect in literary discourse. The editor's Introduction gives a comprehensive survey of contemporary aspectology and its development towards a proper integration of discourse/situation conditions. Besides cross-linguistic considerations (including English), the languages analyzed specifically are Russian, Bulgarian, Lithuanian, French and Finnish.

Author : Heike Pichler
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027272188

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The Structure of Discourse-Pragmatic Variation by Heike Pichler Pdf

Everyday language use overflows with discourse-pragmatic features. Their frequency, form and function can vary greatly across social groups and change dramatically over time. And yet these features have not figured prominently in studies of language variation and change. The Structure of Discourse-Pragmatic Variation demonstrates the theoretical insights that can be gained into both the structure of synchronic language variation and the interactional mechanisms creating it by subjecting discourse-pragmatic features to systematic variationist analysis. Introducing an innovative methodology that combines principles of variationist linguistics, grammaticalisation studies and conversation analysis, it explores patterns of variation in the formal encoding of I DON’T KNOW, I DON’T THINK and negative polarity tags in a north-east England interview corpus. Speakers strategically exploit the formal variability of these constructions to signal subtle meaning differences and to index social identities closely linked to the variables’ and their variants’ functional compartmentalisation in the variety. The methodology, results and implications of this study will be of great interest to scholars working throughout variationist sociolinguistics, grammaticalisation and discourse analysis.

Author : Paul J. Hopper
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027286475

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Tense-Aspect by Paul J. Hopper Pdf

The verbal categories of tense and aspect have been studied traditionally from the point of view of their reference to the timing and time-perspective of the speaker’s reported experience. They are universal categories both in terms of the semantic-functional domain they cover as well as in terms of their syntactic and morphological realization. Nevertheless, their treatment in contemporary linguistics is often restricted and narrow based, often involving mere recapitulatoin of traditional semantic and morphotactic studies. The present volume arises out of a symposium held at UCLA in May 1979, in which a group of linguists gathered to re-open the subject of tense-and-aspect from a variety of perspectives, including — in addition to the traditional semantics — also discourse-pragmatics, psycholinguistics, child language, Creolization and diachronic change. The languages discussed in this volume include Russian, Turkish, English, Indonesian, Ameslan, Eskimo, various Creoles, Mandari, Hebrew, Bantu and others. The emphasis throughout is not only on the description of language-specific tense-aspect phenomenon, but more on the search for universal categories and principles which underlie the cross-language variety of tense and aspect. In particular, many of the participants address themselves to the relationship between propositional-semantics and discourse-pragmatics, in so far as these two functional domains interact within tense-aspect systems.

Author : A. Machtelt Bolkestein,Casper Groot,J. Lachlan Mackenzie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015011558601

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Syntax and Pragmatics in Functional Grammar by A. Machtelt Bolkestein,Casper Groot,J. Lachlan Mackenzie Pdf

Author : Pamela Downing,Michael P. Noonan
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027229212

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Word Order in Discourse by Pamela Downing,Michael P. Noonan Pdf

This volume brings together a collection of 18 papers dealing with the problem of word order variation in discourse. Word order variation has often been treated as an essentially unpredictable phenomenon, a matter of selecting randomly one of the set of possible orders generated by the grammar. However, as the papers in this collection show, word order variation is not random, but rather governed by principles which can be subjected to scientific investigation and are common to all languages.The papers in this volume discuss word order variation in a diverse collection of languages and from a number of perspectives, including experimental and quantitative text based studies. A number of papers address the problem of deciding which order is 'basic' among the alternatives. The volume will be of interest to typologists, to other linguists interested in problems of word order variation, and to those interested in discourse syntax.

Author : Ferenc Kiefer,István Kenesei,Robert M. Harnish
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027251096

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Perspectives on Semantics, Pragmatics, and Discourse by Ferenc Kiefer,István Kenesei,Robert M. Harnish Pdf

Professor Ferenc Kiefer of the Linguistics Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences was instrumental in bringing early transformational grammar to Europe. His extensive work contributes substantially to making a connection between the grammatical theory and other areas of linguistics. The 17 essays in this book celebrate his career by continuing to explore inter-area research in linguistics: pragmatics in grammar (de Groot, van Riemsdijk, Dressler & Barbaresi, Comrie), semantic compositionality and pragmatics (Wunderlich, Partee, Borschev, Szabo, Bach), logical structures and universals in semantics and pragmatics (van der Auwera, Bultinck, Burton-Roberts, Harnish, Wierzbicka) dialogue and thematic structure (Jonasson, Doherty, Hajicova, Panevova, Sgall, Allwood, Fraser).

Author : Louise McNally,Christopher Kennedy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008-03-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199211616

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Adjectives and Adverbs by Louise McNally,Christopher Kennedy Pdf

This book brings together research on the semantics and pragmatics of adjectives and adverbs. It integrates lexical and compositional semantics and provides a full account of the structural and interpretive properties of adjectives and adverbs. It will interest students in linguistics and philosophy at graduate level and above.