The syntax and semantics of discourse markers / / Miriam Urgelles-Coll
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| Autore: |
Urgelles-Coll Miriam
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| Titolo: |
The syntax and semantics of discourse markers / / Miriam Urgelles-Coll
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| Pubblicazione: | London, : Continuum International Pub. Group, 2010 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (179 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 401.41 |
| Soggetto topico: | Discourse markers |
| Discourse analysis | |
| Sociolinguistics | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [164]-168) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 Background; 3 HPSG and SDRT; 4 Anyway: An Informal Analysis; 5 Anyway: A Formal Analysis; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | In this book, Miriam Urgelles-Col examines the syntax and semantics of discourse markers. A discourse marker can loosely be defined as an item such as well or now , coming at the beginning of an utterance and marking a boundary between one part of spoken discourse and the next, signalling the start of a new section of the discourse. They perform important functions in conversation -- but defining discourse markers is problematic in itself. The syntactic approach employed in this book to describe discourse markers is Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) which is relevant in a theory of |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Syntax and semantics of discourse markers |
| ISBN: | 1-282-57685-2 |
| 9786612576850 | |
| 1-4411-2605-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910140602403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Continuum studies in theoretical linguistics.