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Manual of Discourse Markers in Romance - (Manuals of Romance Linguistics) by Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen & Jacqueline Visconti (Hardcover)
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Highlights
- Virtually unstudied until the 1980s, discourse markers have gone on to become a growth industry.
- About the Author: Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen, University of Manchester, UK; Jacqueline Visconti, University of Genoa, Italy.
- 639 Pages
- Foreign Language Study, Romance Languages (Other)
- Series Name: Manuals of Romance Linguistics
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About the Book
Few topics in linguistics have been addressed by such a wide spectrum of approaches as discourse markers, and yet there is still no agreement even on their classification. Multifunctional and operating on different levels, they are at the cross-roadBook Synopsis
Virtually unstudied until the 1980s, discourse markers have gone on to become a growth industry. Research on markers is central to comprehensive theories of the synchronic linguistic system as such, of the use of language in communication, and of language change. From the very beginning, linguists working on Romance languages have been at the forefront of research on discourse markers. Including among its contributors many of the foremost experts in the field, this volume not only offers substantial state-of-the-art introductions to the diverse facets of contemporary research on discourse markers, with a focus on Romance, but it achieves added value by including in each chapter original and previously unpublished results.
The first part of the book addresses foundational issues: What are discourse markers? What is their relationship to other types of pragmatic markers? The second part considers discourse markers at different levels of linguistic description, in particular: their grammatical status, their semantics and pragmatics, their prosodic features, their positioning within discourse units. The third part outlines different approaches to the study of discourse markers, namely contrastive studies, corpus linguistics, discourse traditions, and historical linguistics. The fourth part explores discourse markers at the interface with central topics in linguistics, such as politeness, social variation, language acquisition and psycholinguistic processing. The final part focuses on discourse markers in each of the major Romance languages, namely French, Italian, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese and Romanian.
The volume will be of interest to researchers and students working in the field of Romance studies, general linguists, pragmaticians, discourse analysts, educationalists, and psychologists.
About the Author
Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen, University of Manchester, UK; Jacqueline Visconti, University of Genoa, Italy.