Discourse markers and (dis)fluency : forms and functions across languages and registers / / Ludivine Crible

• Autore: Crible Ludivine
• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam, [Netherlands] ; ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2018; ©2018
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (253 pages) : illustrations, tables
• Disciplina: 420.141
• Soggetto topico: Discourse markers; Pragmatics; Language and languages - Study and teaching - Foreign speakers; Fluency (Language learning); Functionalism (Linguistics); Contrastive lingusitics; Functional discourse grammar
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: List of figures -- ; List of tables -- ; List of abbreviations and acronyms -- ; Acknowledgments -- ; Introduction -- Fluency in time and space -- Background and objectives -- Preview of the book -- Definitions and corpus-based approaches to fluency and disfluency -- Disfluency or repair? Levelt's legacy -- Holistic definitions of fluency -- Componential approaches to fluency and disfluency -- Qualitative components of perception -- Quantitative components of production -- Gotz's qualitative-quantitative approach -- Synthesis : definition adopted in this work -- A usage-based account of (dis)fluency -- Key notions in usage-based linguistics -- From schemas to sequences of fluencemes -- Variation in context(s) -- Accessing fluency through frequency -- Summary and hypotheses -- Definitions and corpus-based approaches to discourse markers -- From connectives to pragmatic markers : defining the continuum a unique contribution to corpus-based pragmatics, discourse analysis and crosslinguistic fluency research. Discourse markers in contrastive linguistics -- Models of discourse marker functions -- Discourse relations in the Penn discourse TreeBank 2.0 -- The many scopes of DM functions -- "Fluent" vs. "disfluent" discourse markers -- DM features and (dis)fluency -- Previous corpus-based accounts of DMs and disfluency -- Summary and hypotheses -- Corpus and method -- The DisFrEn dataset -- Source corpora -- Comparable corpus design -- Corpus structure in situational features -- Discourse marker annotation -- Identification of DM tokens -- Functional taxonomy -- Three-fold positioning system -- Other variables -- Annotation procedure -- Disfluency annotation -- Simple fluencemes -- Compound fluencemes -- Related phenomena and diacritics -- Annotation procedure -- Macro-labels of sequences -- ; Summary -- Portraying the category of discourse markers -- Distribution across languages and registers -- General frequencycorpus-based pragmatics, discourse analysis and crosslinguistic fluency research. The status of tag questions -- Register variation -- A greater effect of register over language? -- DM expressions in contrast -- Diversity hypothesis -- Position of DMs : initiality in question -- Clause-initial DMs -- Utterance-initial DMs -- Turn-initial DMs -- Non-initial DMs -- Interim summary on position -- Domains and functions : frequency and diversity -- Single domains -- Single functions -- Double domains and functions -- Integrating syntax and pragmatics -- Co-occurrence of DMs -- Co-occurrence across languages and registers -- Co-occurrence across positions -- Integrated statistical model of co-occurrence -- ; Summary -- Interim discussion : the potential of bottom-up research -- Disfluency in interviews -- Data -- Fluenceme rates in English and French -- Number of tags -- Number of tokens -- Radio vs. face-to-face interviews -- Clustering tendencies -- Isolation vs. combination -- Most frequent clustersragmatics, discourse analysis and crosslinguistic fluency research. DMs in clusters -- Fluency as frequency -- Frequency and structural complexity -- Frequency and sequence length -- ; Summary -- The (dis)fluency of discourse markers -- Sequence types across registers -- "Cluster" -- "Sequence category" -- "Internal structure" -- Sequence-specific DMs -- Sequence types across DM features -- Disfluency and functional domain -- Disfluency, domain and position -- Synthesis of variables -- Potentially Disfluent Functions -- PDFs across registers -- PDFs and sequence types -- PDFs and sequence structure -- ; Summary -- Interim discussion : the "silence" of corpora -- Discourse markers in repairs -- Previous approaches to repair -- Reformulation and its markers : the French classics -- Contrastive perspectives on reformulation markers -- From reformulation to repair : levelt's (1983) typology of repair -- Research questions and hypotheses -- Data and method -- Selection criteria -- Repair categorytics, discourse analysis and crosslinguistic fluency research. Relation to annotated fluencemes -- Intra-annotator agreement -- Repair categories across languages -- DMs in repairs -- Position of the DMs -- DM lexemes -- Potentially disfluent functions in repairs -- Specification and enumeration -- DMs and modified repetitions -- ; Summary -- Interim discussion : low quantity, high quality? -- Conclusion -- Summary of the main findings -- General discussion -- Implications and research avenues -- ; Bibliography -- Appendices -- Discourse markers by register -- List of discourse markers in DisFrEn and their functions -- List of functions in DisFrEn and their discourse markers -- Top-five most frequent functions by register in DisFrEn -- ; Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Spoken language is characterized by the occurrence of linguistic devices such as discourse markers (e.g. so, well, you know, I mean) and other so-called “disfluent” phenomena, which reflect the temporal nature of the cognitive mechanisms underlying speech production and comprehension. The purpose of this book is to distinguish between strategic vs. symptomatic uses of these markers on the basis of their combination, function and distribution across several registers in English and French. Through deep quantitative and qualitative analyses of manually annotated features in the new DisFrEn corpus, this usage-based study provides (i) an exhaustive portrait of discourse markers in English and French and (ii) a scale of (dis)fluency against which different configurations of discourse markers can be diagnosed as rather fluent or disfluent. By bringing together discourse markers and (dis)fluency under one coherent framework, this book is a unique contribution to corpus-based pragmatics, discourse analysis and crosslinguistic fluency research.
• Titolo autorizzato: Discourse markers and (dis)fluency
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910478922703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Pragmatics & beyond ; ; Volume 286.