Subjectivity in language and in discourse / editors, Nicole Baumgarten, Inke Du Bois, Juliane House.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baumgarten, Nicole.

Du Bois, Inke.

House, Juliane.

Series:

Studies in Pragmatics 10.

Studies in pragmatics ; v. 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Subjectivity (Linguistics).

Subjectivity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (415 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Subjectivity in Language and in Discourse deals with the linguistic encoding and discursive construction of subjectivity across languages and registers. The aim of this book is to complement the highly specialized, parallel and often separate research strands on the phenomenon of subjectivity with a volume that gives a forum to diverse theoretical vantage points and methodological approaches, presenting research results in one place which otherwise would most likely be found in substantially different publications and would have to be collected from many different sources. Taken together, the chapters in this volume reflect the rich diversity in contemporary research on the phenomenon of subjectivity. They cover numerous languages, colloquial, academic and professional registers, spoken and written discourse, diverse communities of practice, speaker and interaction types, native and non-native language use, and Lingua Franca communication. The studies investigate both already well explored languages and registers (e.g. American English, academic writing, conversation) and with respect to subjectivity, less studied languages (Greek, Italian, Persian, French, Russian, Swedish, Danish, German, Australian English) as well as many different communicative settings and contexts, ranging from conference talk, promotional business writing, academic advising, disease counselling to internet posting, translation, and university classroom and research interview talk. Some contributions focus on individual linguistic devices, such as pronouns, intensifiers, comment clauses, modal verbs, adjectives and adverbs, and their capacity of introducing the speaker's subjective perspective in discourse and interactional sequence; others examine the role of larger functional categories, such as hedging and metadiscourse, or interactional sequencing.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Nicole Baumgarten , Inke Du Bois and Juliane House

Introduction / Nicole Baumgarten , Juliane House and Inke Du Bois

Super, Uber, So, and Totally: Over-the-top Intensification to Mark Subjectivity in Colloquial Discourse / Rachelle Waksler

Collective Aspects of Subjectivity: The Subject Pronoun emeı´B (‘we’) in Modern Greek / Theodossia-Soula Pavlidou

Objectivizing Subjectivity: Person Deixis and the Constitution of Dialogic Identity (with an Example of German Discourse Data) / Gabriele Diewald and Marijana Kresic

Authorial Stance in Research Article Abstracts and Introductions from Two Disciplines / Phuong Dzung Pho

Subjectivity in the Discourse of Depressed Acute Care Hospital Patients / Helen Tebble

Subjectivity in English Lingua Franca Interactions / Juliane House

Metadiscourse and the Construction of Speaker Identities in L2 Academic Presentational Talk / Nicole Baumgarten

Saying What You Think: An Analysis of French and Australian English Non-Native Speaker Expression of Subjectivity / Kerry Mullan

Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity as Aspects of Epistemic Stance Marking / Janus Mortensen

Subjective Modality in Persian and English Parallel Texts / Mohammad Amouzadeh , Manoochehr Tavangar and Shadi Shahnaseri

Subjectivity in Contrast: A Cross-Linguistic Comparison of ‘I Think’ in Australian English, French and Swedish / Kerry Mullan and Susanna Karlsson

Hedging in German and Russian Conference Presentations: A Cross-Cultural View / Anna Breitkopf-Siepmann

Grammatical, Pragmatic and Sociolinguistic Aspects of the First Person Plural Pronoun / Inke Du Bois

Subjectivity in Academic Discourse: A Cross-Linguistic Comparison of the Author’s Presence in French, Italian and German Research Articles in Linguistics / Nadine Rentel

Authorial Presence and Stance in German and French Letters to Shareholders / Anne Ku¨ppers

Self-Presentation and Adaptation in Institutional Discourse: An Analysis of German and French Introductory Rounds of University Seminars / Claudia Scharioth

Author Index / Nicole Baumgarten , Inke Du Bois and Juliane House

Subject Index / Nicole Baumgarten , Inke Du Bois and Juliane House.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 13, 2015).

Includes indexes.

With bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004261921

9004261923

OCLC:

921933809

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004261921 DOI