Pragmatic Markers Discourse Markers And Modal Particles

Author : Chiara Fedriani,Andrea Sansó
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 504 pages
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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 : Liesbeth Degand,Bert Cornillie,Paola Pietrandrea
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 53,5 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 : Daniël Van Olmen,Jolanta Šinkūnienė
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 43,6 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 : Peter Lauwers,Gudrun Vanderbauwhede,Stijn Verleyen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027273703

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Pragmatic Markers and Pragmaticalization by Peter Lauwers,Gudrun Vanderbauwhede,Stijn Verleyen Pdf

This volume brings together five papers offering cross-linguistic analyses of pragmatic markers involving modality, supplemented by three book reviews on the same topic. The contrastive method, based on monolingual or translation corpora, does not only provide interesting insights about differences with respect to the semantics and the formal encoding of semantics between cognate elements in different languages, but also appears to be a very useful tool to refine the semantic analysis of markers within a given language. The reader will also discover among the results of the original empirical research collected in this volume insights that contribute to typological and theoretical issues surrounding pragmatic markers, such as the bottom-up identification of cross-linguistic pragmatic or discourse functions, the establishment of semantic maps and the formulation of hypotheses about implicational hierarchies in the diachronic development of pragmatic markers on the basis of synchronic evidence, especially in the framework of grammaticalization/pragmaticalization theory. This volume was orginally published as a special issue of Languages in Contrast 10:2 (2010).

Author : Karin Aijmer,Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780080480299

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Pragmatic Markers in Contrast by Karin Aijmer,Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen Pdf

Presents an examination of the methods and theories for studying pragmatic markers cross-linguistically. This work also explores the comparison of pragmatic markers across languages in order to offer important insights into the similarities and differences between languages.

Author : Kerstin Fischer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 54,6 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 : Uta Lenk
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Discourse markers
ISBN : 3823349384

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Marking Discourse Coherence by Uta Lenk Pdf

Author : Andreas H. Jucker,Yael Ziv
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789027250711

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Discourse Markers by Andreas H. Jucker,Yael Ziv Pdf

A collection of papers on discourse markers in different languages, presented at the fifth conference of the International Pragmatics Association, Me×ico, in the summer of 1996.

Author : Laurel J. Brinton
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110907582

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Pragmatic Markers in English by Laurel J. Brinton Pdf

The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies which integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the other. The TiEL series features volumes that present interesting new data and analyses, and above all fresh approaches that contribute to the overall aim of the series, which is to further outstanding research in English linguistics.

Author : Kerstin Fischer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,6 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 : Deborah Schiffrin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521357187

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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 : Gisle Andersen,Thorstein Fretheim
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2000-07-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027283740

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Pragmatic Markers and Propositional Attitude by Gisle Andersen,Thorstein Fretheim Pdf

In interactive discourse we not only express propositions, but we also express different attitudes to them. That is, we communicate how our mind entertains those propositions that we express. A speaker is able to express an attitude of belief, desire, hope, doubt, fear, regret or pretence that a given proposition represents a true state of affairs. This collection of papers explores the contribution of particles and other uninflected mood-indicating function words to the expression of propositional attitude in the broad sense. Some languages employ this type of attitude-marking device extensively, even for the expression of basic moods and basic speech act categories, other languages use such markers sparsely and always in interaction with syntactic form. Both types of language are examined in this volume, which includes studies of attitudinal markers in Amharic, English, Gascon, Occitan, German, Greek, Hausa, Hungarian, Japanese, Norwegian and Swahili. The theoretical emphasis is on issues such as interpretive vs. descriptive use of utterances or utterance parts, procedural semantics, linguistic underdetermination of the proposition expressed and the speaker’s communicated attitude to it, higher-level explicatures in the relevance-theoretic sense, the explicit — implicit distinction, as well as processes of grammaticalization and negotiation of propositional attitude in spoken interaction.

Author : Simone Müller
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,9 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 : Josef Bayer,Volker Struckmeier
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 54,9 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 : Karin Aijmer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 52,5 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.