Discourse Functions of Adverbial Placement in English
Author : Tuija Virtanen
Publisher :
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 33,88 MB
Release : 1992
Category : English language
ISBN :
Discourse Functions at the Left and Right Periphery
Author : Kate Beeching
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 46,51 MB
Release : 2014-08-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9004274820
Book Description
A basic property of human language is that it unfolds in time; the left and right margin of discourse units do not behave in a symmetrical fashion. The working hypothesis of this volume is that discourse elements at the left periphery have mainly subjective and discourse-structuring functions, whereas at the right periphery, such elements play an intersubjective or modalising role. However, the picture that emerges from the different contributions to this volume is far more complex. While it seems clear that the working hypothesis cannot be upheld in a “strong” way, most of the chapters – especially those based on corpus data – show that an asymmetry between left and right periphery does exist and that it is a matter of frequency.
Adjunct Adverbials in English
Author : Hilde Hasselgård
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 50,97 MB
Release : 2010-02-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1139486233
Book Description
In this original study, Hilde Hasselgård discusses the use of adverbials in English, through examining examples found in everyday texts. Adverbials - clause elements that typically refer to circumstances of time, space, reason and manner - cover a range of meanings and can be placed at the beginning, in the middle or at the end of a sentence. The description of the frequency of meaning types and discussion of the reasons for selecting positions show that the use of adverbials differs across text types. Adverbial usage is often linked to the general build-up of a text and part of its content and purpose. In using real texts, Hasselgård identifies a challenge for the classification of adjuncts, and also highlights that some adjuncts have uses that extend into the textual and interpersonal domains, obscuring the traditional divisions between adjuncts, disjuncts and conjuncts.
Grammar in Interaction
Author : Cecilia E. Ford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 16,20 MB
Release : 1993-04-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521418038
Book Description
Cecilia E. Ford explores the question: what work do adverbial clauses do in conversational interaction? Her analysis of this predominating conjunction strategy in English conversation is based on the assumption that grammars reflect recurrent patterns of situated language use, and that a primary site for language is in spontaneous talk. She considers the interactional as well as the informational work of talk and shows how conversationalists use grammar to coordinate their joint language production. The management of the complexities of the sequential development of a conversation, and the social roles of conversational participants, have been extensively examined within the sociological approach of Conversation Analysis. Dr Ford uses Conversation Analysis as a framework for the interpretation of interclausal relations in her database of American English conversations. Her book contributes to a growing body of research on grammar in discourse, which has until recently remained largely focused on monologic rather than dialogic functions of language.
Structures in Discourse
Author : Martin Gill
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 40,81 MB
Release : 2024-08-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027246823
Book Description
This volume aims to stretch the boundaries of text and discourse linguistics, exploring organization and structuring in discourse across a variety of communication forms, from written to spoken to visual, in old and new media. It presents a collection of case studies ranging in focus from the micro-level discourse functions of pronouns and emojis, to the macro-level structure of online interaction, all from their different perspectives drawing inspiration from the notion of text as structure and process. In a world of proliferating media and discourse types, the papers collected here reflect the latest scholarship in text and discourse studies, highlighting the value of combining multiple approaches and suggesting future directions and possibilities for research. Structures in Discourse will be of interest to students and researchers in pragmatics, discourse analysis, media studies and digitally mediated communication.
English Discourse Particles
Author : Karin Aijmer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 37,89 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027222800
Book Description
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.
Corpora and Cross-Linguistic Research
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 37,76 MB
Release : 2023-11-27
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 900465366X
Book Description
In recent years there has been increasing interest in the development and use of bilingual and multilingual corpora. As Karin Aijmer writes in this book, 'The contrastive or comparative perspective ... makes it possible to dig deeper and to ask new questions about the relationship between languages with the aim of sharpening our conceptions of cross-linguistic correspondences and adding to our knowledge of the languages compared.' The papers in this volume are a showcase of the great variety of purposes to which bilingual and multilingual corpora can be put. They do not only lend themselves to descriptive and applied approaches, but are also suitable for theory-oriented studies. The range of linguistic phenomena covered by the various approaches is very wide; the papers focus on fields of research like syntax, discourse, semantics, information structure, lexis, and translation studies. The range of languages studied comprises English, Norwegian, Swedish, German, Dutch, and Portuguese. In addition to purely linguistic papers, there are contributions on computer programs developed for the compilation and use of bilingual and multilingual corpora.
Adverbials in Use
Author : Laure Sarda
Publisher : Presses universitaires de Louvain
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 47,56 MB
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 2875583069
Book Description
Contributions in this volume will lead to a better understanding of the complex interplay of competing motivations affecting the use of adverbials in...
Discourse Studies in Cognitive Linguistics
Author : Karen Van Hoek
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 50,57 MB
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027236828
Book Description
This volume presents selected papers from the 5th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference within the area of discourse analysis. The topics addressed include pronominal anaphora in English and Russian narratives, the subtleties of the definite article in English and Spanish, the use of discourse particles in Dutch, and the function of prosody as a marker of text structure in spoken narratives. The papers illustrate the potential of the emerging cognitive linguistic paradigm to provide fresh, revealing insights in the study of discourse.
Adverbs and Modality in English
Author : Leo Hoye
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 26,14 MB
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 131789359X
Book Description
This new study on modality in English represents a departure from more traditional approaches to the subject, where the modal auxiliaries have been the usual focus of attention, by examining in detail the nature of their association with different categories of modal adverb. Modality is notoriously complex but the present work offers an accessible introduction to the topic, a comprehensive account of modal-adverb co-occurrence, and a reappraisal of the English modal system. The descriptive framework draws fresh insights from syntactic, semantic and pragmatic approaches to the study of language and communication, and from recent work in corpus linguistics. The book includes contrastive reference to the expression of modality in Spanish and a discussion of modality in such applied contexts as language teaching. A major feature is its reliance on authentic spoken and written language data. The study is suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate students of linguistics, English language, communications studies and related disciplines.
