Approaches to discourse particles / edited by Kerstin Fischer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fischer, Kerstin, 1966-

Series:

Studies in pragmatics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discourse markers.

Physical Description:

viii, 498 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Boston ; London : Elsevier, 2006.

Summary:

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, 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.

Contents:

1 Towards an understanding of the spectrum of approaches to discourse particles: introduction to the volume / Kerstin Fischer 1

Part I Polysemy-based approaches

2 A dynamic polysemy approach to the lexical semantics of discourse markers (with an exemplary analysis of French toujours) / Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen 21

3 Discourse markers in English: a discourse-pragmatic view / Diana M. Lewis 43

4 The rise of discourse markers in Italian: a specific type of language change / Richard Waltereit 61

5 A functional approach to the study of discourse markers / Salvador Pons Borderia 77

6 Pragmatic markers in translation: a methodological proposal / Karin Aijmer, Ad Foolen, Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen 101

7 The description of text relation markers in the Geneva model of discourse organization / Eddy Roulet 115

8 A dynamic approach to discourse particles / Henk Zeevat 133

Part II Monosemy-based approaches

9 A relevance-theoretic approach to discourse particles in Singapore English / Ler Soon Lay Vivien 149

10 From procedural meaning to processing requirement / Thanh Nyan 167

11 Towards a theory of discourse markers / Bruce Fraser 189

12 What are particles good for? / Harald Weydt 205

13 The Natural Semantic Metalanguage approach to discourse markers / Catherine E. Travis 219

14 Epistemic modalities and the discourse particles of Singapore / Anthea Fraser Gupta 243

15 Integrating prosodic and contextual cues in the interpretation of discourse markers / Li-chiung Yang 265

16 Formal properties of a subset of discourse markers: connectives / Corinne Rossari 299

17 Discourse marker research and theory: revisiting / Deborah Schiffrin 315

18 Discourse markers as attentional cues at discourse transitions / Gisela Redeker 339

19 A dynamic-interactional approach to discourse markers / Barbara Frank-Job 359

20 Discourse particles as morphemes and as constructions / Francois Nemo 375

21 Discourse particles and modal particles as grammatical elements / Gabriele Diewald 403

22 Frames, constructions, and invariant meanings: the functional polysemy of discourse particles / Kerstin Fischer 427

23 Discourse markers in Italian: towards a "compositional" meaning / Carla Bazzanella 449.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [465]-498).

ISBN:

0080447376

OCLC:

63702555

Publisher Number:

9780080447377