Discourse Functions at the Left and Right Periphery : Crosslinguistic Investigations of Language Use and Language Change.
Title:
Discourse Functions at the Left and Right Periphery : Crosslinguistic Investigations of Language Use and Language Change.
Author:
Beeching, Kate.
ISBN:
9789004274822
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (265 pages)
Series:
Studies in Pragmatics ; v.12
Studies in Pragmatics
Contents:
Contents -- List of Contributors -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Moi je ne sais pas vs. Je ne sais pas moi: French Disjoint Pronouns in the Left vs. Right Periphery -- Chapter 3 Motivations for Meaning Shift at the Left and Right Periphery: well, bon and hao -- Chapter 4 On the Function of the Epistemic Adverbs Surely and No Doubt at the Left and Right Peripheries of the Clause -- Chapter 5 Setting Up a Mental Space: A Function of Discourse Markers at the Left Periphery (LP) and Some Observations about LP and RP in Japanese -- Chapter 6 Italian guarda, prego, dai. Pragmatic Markers and the Left and Right Periphery -- Chapter 7 'So very fast then' Discourse Markers at Left and Right Periphery in Spoken French -- Chapter 8 On the Development of Sentence Final Particles (and Utterance Tags) in Chinese -- Chapter 9 The Interplay of Discourse and Prosody at the Left and Right Periphery in Korean: An Analysis of kuntey 'but' -- Author Index -- Subject Index.
Abstract:
This volume tests the hypothesis that elements at the left periphery of discourse units have mainly subjective and discourse-structuring functions, whereas at the right periphery, such elements play an intersubjective or modalising role.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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