Argument and rhetoric [[electronic resource] ] : adverbial connectors in the history of English / / by Ursula Lenker

• Autore: Lenker Ursula
• Pubblicazione: Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (309 p.)
• Disciplina: 425/.76
• Soggetto topico: English language - Adverbials; English language - Connectives; English language - History; English language - Grammar, Historical; English language - Grammar
• Soggetto non controllato: English /language; historical linguistics; syntax
• Classificazione: HE 140
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of abbreviations -- 1. The framework -- 2. Clausal connection -- 3. The category "adverb" -- 4. Adverbs and conjunctions in earlier metalinguistic thought -- 5. Connectors in Old English -- 6. Adverbial connectors in the history of English -- 7. Adverbial connectors: morphology -- 8. Cognitive source domains -- 9. Shifting deictics in the history of English causal connection -- 10. contrast/concession -- 11. addition -- 12. transition -- 13. Perspicuity and the "New Rhetoric" -- 14. Conclusions -- Backmatter
• Sommario/riassunto: The book is the first corpus-based study giving a comprehensive overview of English items which have been used as adverbial connectors ('conjuncts', 'linking adverbials'), from Old English to Present-Day English. The author analyses different characteristics of the make-up, functions and use of connectives, and considers morphological and syntactic factors as well as pragmatic, textlinguistic and socio-cultural aspects.
• Titolo autorizzato: Argument and rhetoric
• ISBN: 1-282-71440-6; 9786612714405; 3-11-021606-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781159803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Topics in English linguistics ; ; 64.