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Record Nr.

UNINA9910151708903321

Autore

Fleischman Suzanne

Titolo

Discourse Pragmatics and the Verb : the Evidence from Romance

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Florence, : Taylor and Francis, 2016

ISBN

1-315-40356-0

1-315-40358-7

1-315-40357-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (229 pages)

Collana

Routledge Library Editions: Discourse Analysis ; ; Volume 4

Altri autori (Persone)

WaughLinda R

Disciplina

440

Soggetti

Romance languages - Verb

Romance languages - Discourse analysis

Pragmatics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 1991.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Original Title; Original Copyright; Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 The temporal structure of discourse: setting, change, and perspective; 3 Verb tense and point of view in narrative; 4 Tense switching in Italian: the alternation between passato prossimo and passato remoto in oral narratives; 5 Multivalency: the French historical present in journalistic discourse; 6 The status of imperatives as discourse signals; 7 A contextual reconsideration of the Spanish -ra indicative -- 8 Losing ground: a discourse-pragmatic solution to the history of -ra in Spanish.

9 The pragmatics of Spanish mood in complements of knowledge and acquisition-of-knowledge predicates10 Verbs of cognition in spoken Spanish: A discourse profile; Index of subjects; Index of names.