Overview

This book offers new perspectives into the description of the form, meaning and function of Pragmatic Markers, Discourse Markers and Modal Particles in a number of different languages, along with new methods for identifying their ‘prototypical’ instances in situated language contexts, often based on cross-linguistic comparisons. The papers collected in this volume also discuss different factors at play in processes of grammaticalization and pragmaticalization, which include contact-induced change and pragmatic borrowing, socio-interactional functional pressures and sociopragmatic indexicalities, constraints of cognitive processing, together with regularities in semantic change. Putting the traditional issues concerning the status, delimitation and categorization of Pragmatic Markers, Discourse Markers and Modal Particles somewhat off the stage, the eighteen articles collected in this volume deal instead with general questions concerning the development and use of such procedural elements, explored from different approaches, both formal and functional, and from a variety of perspectives – including corpus-based, sociolinguistic, and contrastive perspectives – and offering language-specific synchronic and diachronic studies.

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Author:   Chiara Fedriani (University of Genoa) ,  Andrea Sanso (University of Insubria)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   186
Weight:   1.030kg
ISBN:  

9789027259516

ISBN 10:   9027259518
Pages:   492
Publication Date:   13 November 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Preface; 2. What do we know and where do we go from here? (by Fedriani, Chiara); 3. Part 1. General theoretical questions and quantitative approaches; 4. The emergence of Hebrew loydea / loydat ('I dunno MASC/FEM') from interaction: Blurring the boundaries between discourse marker, pragmatic marker, and modal particle (by Maschler, Yael); 5. Towards a model for discourse marker annotation: From potential to feature-based discourse markers (by Bolly, Catherine); 6. Towards an operational category of discourse markers: A definition and its model (by Crible, Ludivine); 7. A corpus-based approach to functional markers in Greek: Exploring the role of position (by Goutsos, Dionysis); 8. Discourse markers and discourse relations: The French DM quoi (by Costachescu, Adriana); 9. Part 2. The status of modal particles; 10. Modal particles and Verum focus: New corollaries (by Abraham, Werner); 11. Italian non-canonical negations as modal particles: Information state, polarity and mirativity (by Squartini, Mario); 12. A format for the description of German modal particles and their functional equivalents in Croatian and English (by Kresic, Marijana); 13. Part 3. Language-specific and diachronic studies; 14. Vocatives as a source category for pragmatic markers: From deixis to discourse marking via affectivity (by Kleinknecht, Friederike); 15. Paths of development of English DMs: (Inter)subjectification, deontic reversal and other stories (by Mazzon, Gabriella); 16. Grammaticalization of PM/DM/MM in Japanese (by Shinzato, Rumiko); 17. Dubitative-corrective constructions in Italian (by Giacalone Ramat, Anna); 18. On the pragmatic expansion of Polish gdzies tam 'somewhere there' (by Adamczyk, Magdalena); 19. Part 4. Language contact and variation; 20. A pragmatic approach to Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary: Discourse markers in focus (by Giuliani, Stephan); 21. Italian discourse markers and modal particles in contact (by Fiorentini, Ilaria); 22. Functional markers in llanito code-switching: Regular patterns in Gibraltar's bilingual speech (by Goria, Eugenio); 23. Just a suggestion: just/e in French and English (by Beeching, Kate)

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