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Point of view and grammar : structural patterns of subjectivity in American English conversation /
This book proposes that subjective expression shapes grammatical and lexical patterning in American English conversation. Analyses of structural and functional properties of English conversational utterances indicate that the most frequent combinations of subject, tense, and verb type are those that...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub.,
©2002.
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| Colección: | Studies in discourse and grammar ;
v. 11. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book proposes that subjective expression shapes grammatical and lexical patterning in American English conversation. Analyses of structural and functional properties of English conversational utterances indicate that the most frequent combinations of subject, tense, and verb type are those that are used by speakers to personalize their contributions, not to present unmediated descriptions of the world. These findings are informed by current research and practices in linguistics which argue that the emergence, or conventionalization, of linguistic structure is related to the frequency with. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 187 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-182) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027296153 9027296154 9781588112323 1588112322 9789027226211 9027226210 |
| ISSN: | 0928-8929 ; |