Discourse Markers : Descriptions and theory.

Studies of Discourse Markers so far have concentrated on either the descriptive or the theoretical parameter. This book brings together thirteen papers concerning aspects of lexical instantiations of Discourse Marking devices, ranging from functional descriptions along cognitive, attitudinal, intera...

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Main Author: Jucker, Andreas H.
Other Authors: Ziv, Yael
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1998.
Series:Pragmatics & beyond. New ser. ; 57.
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Table of Contents:
  • DISCOURSE MARKERS DESCRIPTIONS AND THEORY; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; Discourse markers: Introduction; Rotsè lishmoa kéta? 'wanna hear something weird/funny[lit. 'a segment']?': The Discourse Markers Segmenting Israeli HebrewTalk-in-interaction; A Unified Account of Hebrew bekicur 'in short': Relevance Theory and Discourse StructureConsiderations; The Use of Finnish nyt as a Discourse Particle; Procedural Meaning and Parenthetical Discourse Markers; From Sentence to Discourse: Cos (because) in Teenage Talk.
  • The Pragmatic Marker like from a Relevance-theoretic PerspectiveAnd people just you know like 'wow' Discourse Markers as Negotiating Strategies; Hebrew kaze as a Discourse Marker and Lexical Hedge: Conceptual and Procedural Properties; Discourse Markers and Form-function Correlations; Pejorative Connotation: A Case of Japanese; A Discourse Analysis of Contrastive Connectives in English, Korean, and Japanese Conversation: With Special Reference to the Context of Dispreferred Responses; Contrastive Discourse Markers in English.
  • Pragmatic Functions of the English Discourse Marker anyway and its Corresponding Contrastive Japanese Discourse MarkersIndex; The series Pragmatics & Beyond New Series.