Discourse Markers An Enunciative Approach /

• Main Author: Ranger, Graham (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Discourse analysis.; Semantics.; Syntax.; Linguistics.; Pragmatics.; Corpora (Linguistics).; Discourse Analysis.; Theoretical Linguistics.; Corpus Linguistics.

In our everyday speech we represent events and situations, but we also provide commentary on these representations, situating ourselves and others relative to what we have to say and situating what we say in larger contexts. The present volume examines this activity of discourse marking from an enun...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Introduction
• 2 The Theory of Enunciative and Predicative Operations
• 3 Anyway: configuration by target domain
• 4 Indeed and in fact: the role of subjective positioning
• 5 Yet and still: a transcategorial approach to discourse phenomena
• 6 Discourse marker uses of like: from the occurrence to the type
• 7 I think: further variations in subjective endorsement
• 8 General conclusion.