This book is a contribution to the growing field of diachronic construction grammar. Focus is on corpus evidence for the importance of including conventionalized pragmatics within construction grammar and suggestions for how to do so. The empirical domain is the development of Discourse Structuring Markers in English such as after all, also, all the same, by the way, further and moreover (also known as Discourse Markers). The term Discourse Structuring Markers highlights their use not only to connect discourse segments but also to shape discourse coherence and understanding. Monofunctional Discourse Structuring Markers like further, instead, moreover are distinguished from multifunctional ones like after all and by the way. Drawing on usage-based work on constructionalization and constructional changes, the book is in three parts: foundational concepts, case studies, and currently open issues in diachronic construction grammar. These open issues are how to incorporate the concepts subjectification and intersubjectification into a constructional account of change, whether position in a clause is a construction, and the nature of constructional networks and how they change.
How do you get from ‘after all those movies’ to ‘I went to a movie after all’?
Discourse markers constitute an important part of linguistic communication, and research on this phenomenon has been a thriving field of study over the past three decades.
Non-referential uses of nominalization constructions: Asian perspectives. Language and Linguistics Compass 3/1: 1–21. Yap, Foong Ha, Karen Grunow-Hårsta & Janick Wrona. 2011. “Nominalization strategies in Asian languages”.
Title 1 2 3 From modernism to post - modernism : ( e ) motion pictures in Proust , Eco , Barth and Pynchon Teaching Romance linguistics with online French , Italian and Spanish corpora The promotion of explicit and implicit learning ...
The second part of line 18 is the second part (Sb) of the base sequence, responding to the first part (Fb, line 17), i.e. Eleni's offer to go to the aunt's place. The base adjacency pair of the post-sequence following ...
The first handbook to survey and expand the burgeoning field of corpus pragmatics, the intersection of pragmatics and corpus linguistics.
This volume provides new insights into the nature of the Early Modern English discourse markers marry, well and why through the analysis of three corpora (A Corpus of English Dialogues, 1560-1760, the Parsed Corpus of Early English ...
Approaches to Discourse Particles serves as a unique reference by presenting the spectrum of approaches to discourse particles/markers in their richness and variability, whilst ensuring that the differences and similarities between the ...
... discourse-topic shift markers in English. Journal of Pragmatics 156. 121–135. https://doi.org/10.1016/j .pragma.2019.02.002 Traugott, Elizabeth Closs. 2022. Discourse structuring markers in English. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. https ...
Convention and Creativity Karin Aijmer. In works on discourse markers in general , such as Schiffrin ( 1987 ) , Hölker ( 1988 ) and Gülich ( 1970 ) , such ' explicit ' discourse markers have been mentioned most of the time only in ...