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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.

Sommario/riassunto

First published in 1990, this collection investigates grammatical categories associated with the verb as they are used by speakers and writers in real discourses and texts. Focusing on tense, aspect, mood, and voice in French, Spanish, and Italian, each chapter underscores the importance of context in our understanding of how grammatical categories work. Above and beyond their basic 'grammatical functions', categories of the verb are shown to operate in such capacities as



structuring information in discourse, establishing point of view in a text, and creating textual cohesion. Importantly, this volume reflects the crucial role discourse-pragmatics factors play in our interpretation of the meanings of categories of grammar.