English discourse particles : evidence from a corpus / Karin Aijmer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aijmer, Karin.

Series:

Studies in corpus linguistics ; v. 10.

Studies in corpus linguistics, 1388-0373 ; v. 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Particles.

English language.

English language--Discourse analysis.

Computational linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (315 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

English Discourse Particles

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Dedication

Table of contents

Key to prosodic transcription

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: The topic-changer now

Chapter 3: The interjections oh and ah

Chapter 4: The interpersonal particle just

Chapter 5: The 'adjuster' sort of

Chapter 6: Particles with vague reference

Chapter 7: The expectation marker actually

Chapter 8: Conclusion

References

Name index

Subject index

Studies in Corpus Linguistics.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [282]-290) and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612161841

9781282161849

1282161849

9789027297358

9027297355

OCLC:

70739441