How to express yourself with a causal connective : subjectivity and causal connectives in Dutch, German and French / Mirna Pit.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pit, Mirna.

Series:

Utrecht studies in language and communication ; 17.

Utrecht studies in language and communication ; 17

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Connectives.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Causitive (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

vi, 356 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2003.

Contents:

1 An open door? 3

2 Causal connectives 4

2.1 What is a causal connective? 4

2.2 Different connectives to express backward causality 6

2.3 Research question 7

3 Methodological considerations 9

4.1 Different perspectives on connectives 10

Chapter 2 Causal connectives: different perspectives

2 Preliminary observations on structural properties 14

2.2 Subordinating and coordinating connectives 15

2.3 Beyond subordination and coordination 17

3 Semantic and pragmatic properties 21

3.2 Speech-act theoretic accounts 22

3.2.1 Dutch accounts 22

3.2.2 French accounts 35

3.2.3 German accounts 45

3.3 Cognitive linguistic accounts 54

3.3.2 Spooren and Jaspers: perspective 55

3.3.3 Pit, Pander Maat and Sanders: domains of interpretation 57

3.3.4 Verhagen: mental spaces 60

3.4 Systemic Functional Grammar 65

3.4.2 Oversteegen: basic schemes 65

3.4.3 Degand: an abundance of features 69

4.1 Synthesis 78

4.1.1 Structural differences between backward causal connectives 78

4.1.2 Semantic and pragmatic analyses: the major factors 78

4.1.3 Semantic and pragmatic analyses: the minor factors 80

Chapter 3 Subjectivity

2 A first clue 83

3.2 Speaker foregrounding 89

3.3 Perspective 97

3.4 Towards a definition of subjectivity 106

4 The causally primary participant 108

5 Elaboration: the cp's subjectivity 116

5.2 The cp's role 116

5.3 Nature of the cp 123

5.4 Representation mode 128

5.5 Implicitness/explicit textual marking 134

5.6 Referential choice 137

5.7 Subjectivity markers 138

5.8 Polarity 141

5.9 Voice 143

5.10 Tense 146

6 Structural factors 154

7.2 Predictions 162

7.3 Evaluation: subjectivity versus domains and perspective 166

Chapter 4 Subjectivity and Dutch backward causal connectives

2 Hypotheses 171

3 Sample and procedure 175

4 Results 177

4.1.2 Frequencies in narrative and newspaper corpus 177

4.1.3 Frequencies in the substrata of the newspaper corpus 179

4.2 Central variables: role, nature, representation mode, implicit/explicit textual marking 180

4.2.1 Role 181

4.2.2 Role + nature 183

4.2.3 Role + nature + representation mode 186

4.2.4 Role + nature + representation mode + implicit/explicit textual marking 192

4.3 Peripheral variables 198

4.4 Structural variables 204

4.4.2 Punctuation 205

4.4.3 Information status 207

Chapter 5 A crosslinguistic study

2 French 213

2.2 Hypotheses 213

2.3 Sample and procedure 214013 2.4 Results 215

2.4.1.1 Frequencies in the two corpora 215

2.4.1.2 Frequencies in the substrata of the newspaper corpus 216

2.4.2 Central variables: role, nature, representation mode, implicit/explicit textual marking 216

2.4.2.1 Role 216

2.4.2.2 Role + nature 218

2.4.2.3 Role + nature + representation mode 221

2.4.2.4 Role + nature + representation mode + implicit/explicit textual marking 222

2.4.3 Peripheral variables 227

2.4.4 Structural variables 233

2.4.4.2 Punctuation 234

2.4.4.3 Information status 235

3 German 239

3.2 Hypotheses 239

3.3 Sample and procedure 240

3.4.1.1 Frequencies in the two corpora 241

3.4.1.2 Frequencies in the substrata of the newspaper corpus 242

3.4.2 Central variables: role, nature, representation mode, implicit/explicit textual marking 243

3.4.2.1 Role 243

3.4.2.2 Role + nature 245

3.4.2.3 Role + nature + representation mode 248

3.4.2.4 Role + nature + representation mode + implicit/explicit textual marking 250

3.4.3 Peripheral variables 251

3.4.4 Structural variables 257

3.4.4.2 Punctuation 258

3.4.4.3 Information status 258

4 One hypothesis, three languages: Differences and similarities 262

4.2 Ordinal differences and similarities 263

4.3 Absolute differences and similarities 268

Chapter 6 Connectives and meanings

2 Connectives, subjectivity and meanings 272

2.2 Do connectives have meanings? 273

2.3 Modeling connectives' meanings 275

2.4 Modeling the meaning of our connectives 280

2.4.1 How to establish the meaning of connectives? 280

2.4.2 The relation between corpus analyses and the connectives' meanings 281

2.4.3 A corpus-based attempt to determine the connectives' Subj-C and tolerance zones 285

3 An experiment: Repelsteeltje (Rumpelstiltskin) 291

3.2 Background and hypotheses 291

3.3 Methodology 293

3.3.1 Material 293

3.3.2 Subjects, procedure and analysis 295

4 The rhetorical use of omdat 297

4.2 The rhetoric of judicial sentences 299

4.3 Methodology 301

4.4 Results 303

5.2 Evaluation 312

5.2.1 Looking back 312

5.2.2 A step forward? 313

5.2.3 Limitations and impossibilities 318

Appendix I Contrast analysis 330

Appendix II Binomial test 333

Appendix III Logit analysis cp'role 334

Appendix IV-1 Frequencies central variables Dutch: newspaper 335

Appendix IV-2 Frequencies central variables Dutch: narrative 336

Appendix V Subjectivity of cp in relations with want by text type 337

Appendix VI Peripheral variables Dutch 338

Appendix VII Logit analysis French and German 341

Appendix VIII-1 Frequencies central variables French: newspaper 343

Appendix VIII-2 Frequencies central variables French: narrative 344

Appendix IX-1 Frequencies central variables German: newspaper 345

Appendix IX-2 Frequencies central variables German: narrative 345.

ISBN:

9042008563

OCLC:

52520038