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Discourse Functions at the Left and Right Periphery : Crosslinguistic Investigations of Language Use and Language Change.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in Pragmatics SeriesPublisher: Boston : BRILL, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (265 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789004274822
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Discourse Functions at the Left and Right PeripheryDDC classification:
  • 401/.41
LOC classification:
  • P302.35 -- .D56 2014eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Moi je ne sais pas vs. Je ne sais pas moi: French Disjoint Pronouns in the Left vs. Right Periphery -- Chapter 3 Motivations for Meaning Shift at the Left and Right Periphery: well, bon and hao -- Chapter 4 On the Function of the Epistemic Adverbs Surely and No Doubt at the Left and Right Peripheries of the Clause -- Chapter 5 Setting Up a Mental Space: A Function of Discourse Markers at the Left Periphery (LP) and Some Observations about LP and RP in Japanese -- Chapter 6 Italian guarda, prego, dai. Pragmatic Markers and the Left and Right Periphery -- Chapter 7 'So very fast then' Discourse Markers at Left and Right Periphery in Spoken French -- Chapter 8 On the Development of Sentence Final Particles (and Utterance Tags) in Chinese -- Chapter 9 The Interplay of Discourse and Prosody at the Left and Right Periphery in Korean: An Analysis of kuntey 'but' -- Author Index -- Subject Index.
Summary: This volume tests the hypothesis that elements at the left periphery of discourse units have mainly subjective and discourse-structuring functions, whereas at the right periphery, such elements play an intersubjective or modalising role.
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Moi je ne sais pas vs. Je ne sais pas moi: French Disjoint Pronouns in the Left vs. Right Periphery -- Chapter 3 Motivations for Meaning Shift at the Left and Right Periphery: well, bon and hao -- Chapter 4 On the Function of the Epistemic Adverbs Surely and No Doubt at the Left and Right Peripheries of the Clause -- Chapter 5 Setting Up a Mental Space: A Function of Discourse Markers at the Left Periphery (LP) and Some Observations about LP and RP in Japanese -- Chapter 6 Italian guarda, prego, dai. Pragmatic Markers and the Left and Right Periphery -- Chapter 7 'So very fast then' Discourse Markers at Left and Right Periphery in Spoken French -- Chapter 8 On the Development of Sentence Final Particles (and Utterance Tags) in Chinese -- Chapter 9 The Interplay of Discourse and Prosody at the Left and Right Periphery in Korean: An Analysis of kuntey 'but' -- Author Index -- Subject Index.

This volume tests the hypothesis that elements at the left periphery of discourse units have mainly subjective and discourse-structuring functions, whereas at the right periphery, such elements play an intersubjective or modalising role.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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