Discourse Markers in Early Modern English.
Title:
Discourse Markers in Early Modern English.
Author:
Lutzky, Ursula.
ISBN:
9789027273284
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (303 pages)
Series:
Pragmatics & Beyond New Series ; v.227
Pragmatics & Beyond New Series
Contents:
Discourse Markers in Early Modern English -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Aims and scope -- 1.2 Historical corpus (socio)pragmatics -- 1.2.1 Historical pragmatics -- 1.2.2 Historical sociopragmatics -- 1.2.3 The present approach -- 1.3 The Methodology -- 1.4 The discourse markers -- 1.5 Outline of the study -- 2. Discourse markers -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Discourse marker characteristics -- 2.2.1 Phonological and lexical features -- 2.2.2 Syntactic features -- 2.2.3 Semantic features -- 2.2.4 Functional features -- 2.2.5 Sociolinguistic and stylistic features -- 2.2.6 Conclusion -- 2.3 Discourse marker functions -- 2.3.1 The structural approach -- 2.3.2 The predominantly structural approach -- 2.3.3 The structural and attitudinal approach -- 2.3.4 Discourse marker functions in the present approach -- 2.4 Previous studies on historical English discourse markers -- 3. Methodology and data -- 3.1 Data in historical pragmatics -- 3.2 Corpora and text types -- 3.2.1 A Corpus of English Dialogues, 1560-1760 -- 3.2.2 The Parsed Corpus of Early English Correspondence -- 3.2.3 The Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Early Modern English -- 3.2.4 Combining the three corpora -- 3.2.5 The Drama Corpus -- 4. The discourse markers marry, well and why -- 4.1 Marry -- 4.1.1 Etymology of marry -- 4.1.2 Functions -- 4.1.3 Previous studies -- 4.2 Well -- 4.2.1 Etymology of well -- 4.2.2 Functions -- 4.2.3 Previous studies -- 4.3 Why -- 4.3.1 Etymology of why -- 4.3.2 Functions -- 4.3.3 Previous studies -- 5. Quantitative analysis -- 5.1 Subperiod distribution -- 5.2 Text type analysis -- 6. Qualitative analysis -- 6.1 Marry -- 6.1.1 Co-text of use -- 6.1.2 Structural functions -- 6.1.3 Interactional functions -- 6.1.4 Conclusion -- 6.2 Well -- 6.2.1 Co-text of use.
6.2.2 Structural functions -- 6.2.3 Interactional functions -- 6.2.4 Conclusion -- 6.3 Why -- 6.3.1 Co-text of use -- 6.3.2 Structural functions -- 6.3.3 Interactional functions -- 6.3.4 Conclusion -- 6.4 Summary -- 7. Sociopragmatic analysis -- 7.1 Social status distribution -- 7.2 Directions of use -- 7.3 Gender distribution -- 7.4 Conclusion -- 8. Conclusion -- 8.1 Background and methodology -- 8.2 Summary of the findings -- 8.2.1 Marry -- 8.2.2 Well -- 8.2.3 Why -- 8.3 Conclusions and suggestions for further research -- References -- Index.
Abstract:
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 Correspondence, and the Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Early Modern English). By combining both quantitative and qualitative approaches in the study of pragmatic markers, innovative findings are reached about their distribution throughout the period 1500-1760, their attestation in different speech-related text types as well as similarities and differences in their functions. Additionally, this work engages in a sociopragmatic study, based on the sociopragmatically annotated Drama Corpus of almost a quarter of a million words, to enhance our understanding about their use by characters of different social status and gender. This volume therefore constitutes an essential piece of the puzzle in our attempt to gain a full picture of discourse marker use.
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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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