Empirical studies of the construction of discourse / edited by Óscar Loureda [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Loureda, Óscar, editor.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; Volume 305.

Pragmatics & Beyond New Series ; Volume 305

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discourse analysis--Case studies.

Discourse analysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 pages).

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2019]

Summary:

This volume assembles eleven articles addressing current concerns in discourse studies from an empirical perspective. Engaging with highly topical issues, they indicate the potential of an approach to the construction of discourse via corpus-based analysis, experimentation, or combined methodologies. The subject matters of the contributions, delivered by renowned scholars and dealing with either one or several languages, range from mechanisms through which information structure, connection and discourse organization are realized, to prosody as a determinant of hierarchy and specific functions of discourse markers, as well as innovative tools for visualizing discourse structure. The resulting volume addresses scholars working in a variety of topics, who either wish to incorporate empirical methods to their research or whose work is already empirically oriented and wish to gain insight into empirical evidence on state-of-the-art discursive phenomena.

Contents:

Introduction / Óscar Loureda, Inés Recio Fernández, Adriana Cruz and Laura Nadal

Part I. Corpus-based studies: 1. Challenges in the contrastive study of discourse markers: the case of then / Karin Aijmer

2. Local vs. global scope of discourse markers: Corpus-based evidence from syntax and co-occurring pauses / Ludivine Crible

3. Prosodic versatility, hierarchical rank and pragmatic function in conversational markers / Antonio Hidalgo Navarro and Diana Martínez Hernández

4. A preliminary typology of interactional figures based on a tool for visualizing conversational structure / Guadalupe Espinosa-Guerri and Amparo García-Ramón

5. Causal relations between discourse and grammar: Because in spoken French and Dutch / Liesbeth Degand

6. A corpus-based comparative study of concessive connectives in English, German and Spanish: The distribution of although, obwohl and aunque in the Europarl corpus / Volker Gast

Part II. Experiment-based studies: 7. Processing patterns of focusing in Spanish / Adriana Cruz and Óscar Loureda

8. Expectation changes over time: How long it takes to process focus imposed by German sogar / Johannes Gerwien and Martha Rudka

9. Processing implicit and explicit causality in Spanish / Laura Nadal and Inés Recio Fernández

Part III. Combined approaches: 10. Subjectivity and Causality in discourse and cognition: Evidence from corpus analyses, acquisition and processing / Ted J. M. Sanders and Jacqueline Evers-Vermeul

11. Causal connectives revisited: A corpus and experimental investigation of result discourse markers in English / Marta Andersson.

Notes:

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