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Demonstratives in discourse Yvonne Treis, Anna Margetts, Åshild Næss.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Topics at the Grammar-Discourse Interface
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (360 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Language Science Press 2020
- [s.l.] : Language Science Press, 2020.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume explores the use of demonstratives in the structuring and management of discourse, and their role as engagement expressions, from a crosslinguistic perspective. It seeks to establish which types of discourse-related functions are commonly encoded by demonstratives, beyond the well-established reference-tracking and deictic uses, and also investigates which members of demonstrative paradigms typically take on certain functions. Moreover, it looks at the roles of non-deictic demonstratives, that is, members of the paradigm which are dedicated e.g. to contrastive, recognitional, or anaphoric functions and do not express deictic distinctions. Several of the studies also focus on manner demonstratives, which have been little studied from a crosslinguistic perspective. The volume thus broadens the scope of investigation of demonstratives to look at how their core functions interact with a wider range of discourse functions in a number of different languages. The volume covers languages from a range of geographical locations and language families, including Cushitic and Mande languages in Africa, Oceanic and Papuan languages in the Pacific region, Algonquian and Guaykuruan in the Americas, and Germanic, Slavic and Finno-Ugric languages in the Eurasian region. It also includes two papers taking a broader typological approach to specific discourse functions of demonstratives.
- Notes:
- CC BY
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9783961102860
- 3961102864
- Publisher Number:
- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4054814
- Access Restriction:
- Open access Unrestricted online access
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