Discourse structuring markers in English : a historical constructionalist perspective on pragmatics

Discourse structuring markers in English : a historical constructionalist perspective on pragmatics / Elizabeth Closs Traugott.

"This book is a contribution to the growing field of diachronic construction grammar. Focus is on corpus evidence for the importance of including conventionalized pragmatics within construction grammar and suggestions for how to do so. The empirical domain is the development of Discourse Struct...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Traugott, Elizabeth Closs (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2022]
Series:Constructional approaches to language ; v. 33.
Subjects:
Discourse markers.
English language > Discourse analysis.
Construction grammar.
Historical linguistics.
historical linguistics.
Construction grammar
Discourse markers
English language > Discourse analysis
Historical linguistics
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Table of Contents:
  • Foundations. Cognitive linguistics and construction grammar
  • A diachronic construction grammar view of language change
  • Discourse structuring markers and some generalizations about how they arise
  • Alternative hypotheses about the rise of discourse markers
  • Case studies. The development of elaborative markers
  • The development of contrastive markers
  • The development of markers of "digressive" topic shift
  • The development of markers of return to a prior topic
  • The development of combination of DMs
  • Three open issues for a historical constructionalist perspective on pragmatics. Subjectification, intersubjectification, and the rise of DSMs
  • Clausal positions of DMs
  • Changes in networks and nodes
  • Conclusion and prospects.

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