A Contrastive View of Discourse Markers

Discourse Markers of Saying in English and French
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-030-24895-6
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 230 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 433 g

This book is a comparative corpus-based study of discourse markers based on verbs of saying in English and French.  Based on a wide comparable web corpus, the book investigates how discourse markers work in discourse, and compares their differences of position, scope and collocations both cross-linguistically and within single languages. The author positions this study within the wider epistemological background of the French-speaking ‘enunciative’ tradition and the English-speaking ‘pragmatic’ tradition, and it will be of particular interest to students and scholars of semantics, pragmatics and contrastive linguistics.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lansari, Laure

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Computerlinguistik, Korpuslinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: DMs within different linguistic traditions.- 2. Defining a theoretical and methodological framework for DMs of saying.- 3. Overview of the corpus findings.- 4. Corpus findings I: on va dire and shall we say.- 5. Corpus findings II: j’allais dire and I was going to say.- 6. Conclusion: summary and perspectives.

Über Autor(innen)

Laure Lansari is Associate Professor at Paris Diderot University, France, where she teaches English/ French contrastive linguistics and translation.