Profiling discourse participants : forms and functions in Spanish conversation and debates / Barbara De Cock.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cock, Barbara De, author.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond companion series ; Volume 246.

Pragmatics & Beyond New Series (P&BNS) ; Volume 246

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spanish language--Discourse analysis.

Spanish language.

Spanish language--Spoken Spanish.

Pragmatics.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Deixis.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Reference (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (325 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The construction of discourse is a challenging field where many discourse structures and interactional effects remain poorly understood. This analysis provides a systematic explanation for the way in which discourse participants (speaker and hearer) are construed in Spanish through a corpus-driven analysis of informal conversation, TV-debates and parliamentary debates. It deals not only with person deixis, but with the full range of possibilities speakers choose from when profiling their self or their relationship with the interlocutor. This analysis also offers new insights into the operation

Contents:

Profiling Discourse Participants; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; List of figures ; List of tables ; List of abbreviations ; Acknowledgements ; Chapter I. General introduction ; 1. Background and objectives ; 2. Outline ; 3. Theoretical framework ; 3.1 Conceptualisation ; 3.2 (Inter)subjectivity ; 3.3 Contextual identity ; 3.4 Participant status ; 3.5 Genre ; 4. Methodology ; 4.1 Corpus ; 4.2 Glosses ; Chapter II. Person deixis ; 1. Introduction ; 1.1 An overview ; 1.2 Deixis in Spanish ; 1.3 Distribution of person deixis in my data ; 1.4 Hypotheses

2. Singular addresser/addressee 2.1 Communication ; 2.2 Cognition and opinion ; 2.3 Agent profiling ; 2.4 Contextual identity: Personal profiling ; 2.5 Interaction and (inter)subjectivity ; 3. Plural addresser/addressee ; 3.1 Conceptual vagueness ; 3.2 Plural vs. singular ; 4. Tonic pronouns ; 4.1 Identification by means of tonic pronouns ; 4.2 Subject pronouns ; 4.3 Oblique pronouns ; 5. An integrated account of person deixis ; Chapter III. Discourse participant profiling beyond person deixis ; 1. Hypotheses ; 2. Subject NP ; 3. Quantifiers ; 4. Vocatives ; 5. Presentatives

6. Appositions and relatives 7. Space-builders ; 8. Discourse markers ; 9. Profiling the addresser and addressee ; Chapter IV. Indeterminate constructions ; 1. Introduction ; 1.1 Indeterminate constructions: An overview ; 1.2 Distribution ; 1.3 Hypotheses: Towards an integrated analysis of indeterminacy ; 2. Indeterminacy of the person referring expression vs. indeterminacy of the construction ; 2.1 Indeterminacy of the person referring expression ; 2.2 Indeterminacy of the construction ; 3. Tense and modality ; 4. Scope restriction ; 4.1 Verb semantics

4.2 Interaction with other person reference devices 4.3 Space-builders ; 4.4 Subordination and coordination ; 4.5 Conclusions ; 5. Functioning in the discourse context ; 6. Bringing the referential and non-referential functions together ; 7. Indeterminacy as a choice ; Chapter V. Discourse participant profiling ; 1. Hypotheses ; 2. Discourse participant profiling ; 2.1 Identification ; 2.2 Predicates and (inter)subjectivity ; 2.3 Structuring the interaction ; 2.4 A panorama of discourse participant profiling ; 3. Genre ; 3.1 Genre, register, mode ; 3.2 Informal conversation ; 3.3 TV-debates

3.4 Parliamentary debates 3.5 Towards a typology of spoken genres ; Chapter VI. Conclusions and prospects for further research ; 1. Conclusions ; 2. Prospects for further research ; References ; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789027270214

902727021X

OCLC:

887507722