Discourse Markers: An Enunciative Approach

Author:   Graham Ranger
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
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9783319890081


Pages:   314
Publication Date:   06 June 2019
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In our everyday speech we represent events and situations, but we also provide commentary on these representations, situating ourselves and others relative to what we have to say and situating what we say in larger contexts. The present volume examines this activity of discourse marking from an enunciative perspective, providing the first English-language study of the highly influential Theory of Enunciative and Predicative Operations. This semantic/pragmatic theory is popular among academics who specialize in linguistics, discourse analysis, translation studies and didactics in France, but has not yet been widely adopted elsewhere. The tools of this theory are applied to a variety of specific discourse markers in contemporary English and semantic hypotheses are tested using the data-based approach of corpus linguistics. This book therefore provides an English-speaking readership with the keys to understand the theory underlying the author’s analysis of a selection of markers (‘anyway’, ‘indeed’, ‘in fact’, ‘yet’, ‘still’, ‘like’ and 'I think'). This book will provide a valuable resource for students and researchers in linguistics with an interest in discourse markers, natural language argumentation, formal semantics, the interfaces between syntax, semantics and pragmatics, linguistic theorisation and French – or “poststructural” – models of discourse analysis.

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Author:   Graham Ranger
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9783319890081


ISBN 10:   3319890085
Pages:   314
Publication Date:   06 June 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1 Introduction.- 2 The Theory of Enunciative and Predicative Operations.- 3 Anyway: configuration by target domain.- 4 Indeed and in fact: the role of subjective positioning.- 5 Yet and still: a transcategorial approach to discourse phenomena.- 6 Discourse marker uses of like: from the occurrence to the type.- 7 I think: further variations in subjective endorsement.- 8 General conclusion.

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“This work is valuable for anyone who is working with discourse markers as it offers a complex new perspective combining syntactic, pragmatic and semantic elements based on the TEPO. … The main value of this book lies in its combination of theory and practice. … Both enunciative linguists and corpus linguists could benefit from this work, opening up new perspectives for future research.” (Caroline Collet, Corpus Pragmatics, Vol. 3, 2019)


This work is valuable for anyone who is working with discourse markers as it offers a complex new perspective combining syntactic, pragmatic and semantic elements based on the TEPO. ... The main value of this book lies in its combination of theory and practice. ... Both enunciative linguists and corpus linguists could benefit from this work, opening up new perspectives for future research. (Caroline Collet, Corpus Pragmatics, Vol. 3, 2019)


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Graham Ranger is Professor of English Linguistics at the Université d’Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse, France.

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