1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910370050203321

Autore

Lansari Laure

Titolo

A Contrastive View of Discourse Markers : Discourse Markers of Saying in English and French / / by Laure Lansari

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020

ISBN

3-030-24896-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (237 pages)

Disciplina

401.41

425

Soggetti

Semantics

Pragmatics

Corpora (Linguistics)

French language

English language

Corpus Linguistics

French

English

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction: DMs within different linguistic traditions -- 2. Defining a theoretical and methodological framework for DMs of saying -- 3. Overview of the corpus findings -- 4. Corpus findings I: on va dire and shall we say -- 5. Corpus findings II: j’allais dire and I was going to say -- 6. Conclusion: summary and perspectives.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is a comparative corpus-based study of discourse markers based on verbs of saying in English and French. Based on a wide comparable web corpus, the book investigates how discourse markers work in discourse, and compares their differences of position, scope and collocations both cross-linguistically and within single languages. The author positions this study within the wider epistemological background of the French-speaking ‘enunciative’ tradition and the English-speaking ‘pragmatic’ tradition, and it will be of particular interest to students and scholars of semantics, pragmatics and



contrastive linguistics. Laure Lansari is Associate Professor at Paris Diderot University, France, where she teaches English/ French contrastive linguistics and translation.