Connectives as discourse landmarks / edited by Agnes Celle and Ruth Huart.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Celle, Agnès.

Huart, Ruth.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; . 161.

Pragmatics & beyond new series, 0922-842X ; . 161

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discourse markers.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Connectives.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

viii, 212 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This set of eleven articles, by linguists from four different European countries and a variety of theoretical backgrounds, takes a new look at the discourse functions of a number of English connectives, from simple coordinators (and, but) to phrases of varying complexity (after all, the fact is that). Using authentic spoken and written data from varied sources, the authors explore the ways in which current uses of connectives result from the interaction of syntax, semantics and prosody, both over time and through diversity of discourse situations. Most adopt an integrative approach in which speaker-listener or writer-reader relationships are viewed as part and parcel of the linguistic properties of each marker. Because it combines functional, generative and enunciative approaches into a coherent whole with a common explanatory aim, this book will be of interest to linguists, corpus-linguists and all those who investigate the semantics-pragmatics interface.

Contents:

Connectives as Discourse Landmarks

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

List of contributors

Connectives as discourse landmarks

Background

Terminology

Invariance

An integrative approach

Connectives and modality

From syntax to pragmatics

Discourse strategies

In search of operations

References

Connectives, modals and prototypes

1. Similarities between connectives and modals

2. Uses of rather

2.1. Rather as a connective

2.2. Rather as a degree modifier

2.3. Rather as a part of a modal

2.4. Would sooner

3. What links the different uses of rather?

3.1. Bolinger on degree words

3.2. Denial of assumption rather

3.3. Rather as an underlying comparative

4. Using prototypes

5. The future of rather

Conclusion

The interface between discourse and grammar*

1. Introduction

2. The formulaic `the fact is that'

3. Collocational frameworks

4. The fact is and emergent grammar

5. `The fact is that' and grammaticalization

6. Fixed phrases and meaning

7. Thing is and the trouble is

8. Conclusion

And as an aspectual connective in the event structure of pseudo-coordinative constructions

1. Connecting events

1.1. Connectives and pseudo-coordination

1.2. Structure of this paper

2. Pseudo-coordination

2.1. Extraction

2.2. Coordinator substitution

2.3. Distributivity

2.4. A morphological argument

2.5. Summary

3. Towards a circumscription of the meaning of pseudo-coordination

3.1. Semantic bleaching of the pseudo-coordinative verb

3.2. Sit: focus on lack of dynamicity

3.3. Go: Focus on prospective nature of event

3.4. Reduplicative coordination: Focus on the event itself

3.5. Summary

4. Connecting Aktionsarten.

4.1. Aspect, Aktionsart and event structure

4.2. Coordination of heads and event structure

4.3. Pseudo-coordination as a system of Aktionsarten

4.4. Aktionsarten and coordination of likes

5. Conclusion

`Are you a good which or a bad which?'

2. The data

2.1. Typical and atypical ARCs

2.2. Performance error or innovative syntax?

3. The role of the relative pronoun

3.1. The double role of a standard relative pronoun

3.2. The role of a non standard relative pronoun

3.3. The predominance of which

4. Subordination or coordination?

5. Role of the relative pronoun in the organization of discourse

6. Conclusion

From temporal to contrastive and causal

2. Data

3. After all in PDE

3.1. Distribution

3.2. Counterexpectation after all

3.3. Justificative after all

4. The development of after all

4.1. From PP to Adverb

4.2. Development of counter-expectation after all

4.3. Emergence of connective after all

4.4. Summary of historical development

Orchestrating conversation

Introduction

1. Well and you know as discourse organizers: indexicality and semantic `origin'

1.1. Well and you know as focalization cues

1.2. Organizing oral discourse: well and you know as antilinear operators

1.3. Semantics and syntax of well and you know as non DMs

2. Well and you know or how to contribute to the making of an interaction

2.1. Well and you know as heteroglossic markers

2.2. A case in point: well and you know with generic statements

2.3. Connecting beyond words: Implicit heteroglossia and expressivity

3. Afference and efference: Well and you know as mental movements

3.1. Well, you know, and their host utterance: Hedging or amplifying.

3.2. Well, you know, and the addressee: afference or efference

4. Conclusion

A because B so A'

2. Various spiral configurations

2.1. A ternary pattern

2.2. Binary variants

3. A because B: A dissolving causal link

3.1. Narrow scope: A tight causal link

3.2. Broad scope and autonomy

4. A and so A': A qualitative shift

4.1. A semantic or referential shift

4.2. A modal shift

5. Similarities with hypotactic and paratactic structures

5.1. A hypotactic hypothesis

5.2. A paratactic explanation

6. Recursive dynamism and the argumentative spiral

6.1. Discourse function of the connectives

6.2. Recursive dynamism as an organizational principle of discourse

7. Conclusions

Not that … versus It's not that …

2. Construction of ``concessive'' meaning

3. Conditions for appearance of initial not that

3.1. Enunciative analysis

3.2. Discourse function

4. Contrast with It's not that

4.1. The value of it

4.2. Search for the proper ``trigger''

4.3. Negation, but not exclusion

`He's a cop but he isn't a bastard'

1. Preliminary remarks

2. But-coordination as a three-term relation: The linguistic construction of an intermediary representation

3. The incidence of the inner structure of P and Q on the retrieval of the implicit utterance

3.1. Form 1: Q = P'

3.2. Form 2: Q = i' or i = Q': i is a reversed representation of Q

4. But and the notion of `argumentative force'

4.1. Inter-subjective relations and discourse orientation

4.2. Counter-subordination and argumentative force

5. When but can build notions of explanation and condition

Continuity and discontinuity in discourse

Introduction.

1. Theoretical preliminaries

2. Case studies

2.1. Hypotheses

2.2. Aspectuo-modal uses

2.3. Focal uses

2.4. Argumentative uses

3. Concluding remarks

Reconsidering the discourse marking hypothesis

1. Life could be so simple

1.1. But it's not !!

1.2. If discourse connectives are not discourse relation markers, what are they?

2. Using even in English: Connective and non connective uses

2.1. Diversity of uses of even

2.2. Describing morphemes

2.3. The indicational-indexical semantics of even

2.4. Testing the indication

2.5. Morphemes and constructions

3. Conclusion

Index

The series Pragmatics &amp

Beyond New Series.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612152917

9781282152915

1282152912

9789027292261

9027292264

OCLC:

237391352