Understanding pragmatic markers [[electronic resource] ] : a variational pragmatic approach / / Karin Aijmer

• Autore: Aijmer Karin
• Pubblicazione: Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (177 p.)
• Disciplina: 420.145
• Soggetto topico: Pragmatics; Discourse markers
• Classificazione: HF 350
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Cover""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Symbols used in Discourse Transcriptions""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 The Pragmatic Marker Well""; ""3 In Fact and Actually â€? A Class of Adversative Pragmatic Markers""; ""4 General Extenders""; ""5 Conclusion""; ""References""; ""Author Index""; ""Subject Index""
• Sommario/riassunto: The multifunctionality of pragmatic markers makes it difficult to describe their meaning and functional potential. For example we know very little about pragmatic markers and prosody, their sociolinguistic use (how they are related to the speaker's social class, age or gender) or their distribution across text types (informal conversation, discussion, broadcast programme).This book looks at pragmatic markers in a corpus of spoken English, with a focus on the functions performed by the markers in different types of text. The author explores the syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and discourse aspec
• Titolo autorizzato: Understanding pragmatic markers
• ISBN: 0-7486-3551-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910786885503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II