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Discourse markers in early modern English /
This volume provides new insights into the nature of the Early Modern English discourse markers marry, well and why through the analysis of three corpora (A Corpus of English Dialogues, 1560-1760, the Parsed Corpus of Early English Correspondence, and the Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Early Modern...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
2012.
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| Colección: | Pragmatics & beyond.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Discourse Markers in Early Modern English; Editorial page; Title page; Lcc page; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Aims and scope; 1.2 Historical corpus (socio)pragmatics; 1.2.1 Historical pragmatics; 1.2.2 Historical sociopragmatics; 1.2.3 The present approach; 1.3 The Methodology; 1.4 The discourse markers; 1.5 Outline of the study; 2. Discourse markers; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Discourse marker characteristics; 2.2.1 Phonological and lexical features; 2.2.2 Syntactic features; 2.2.3 Semantic features; 2.2.4 Functional features.
- 2.2.5 Sociolinguistic and stylistic features2.2.6 Conclusion; 2.3 Discourse marker functions; 2.3.1 The structural approach; 2.3.2 The predominantly structural approach; 2.3.3 The structural and attitudinal approach; 2.3.4 Discourse marker functions in the present approach; 2.4 Previous studies on historical English discourse markers; 3. Methodology and data; 3.1 Data in historical pragmatics; 3.2 Corpora and text types; 3.2.1 A Corpus of English Dialogues, 1560-1760; 3.2.2 The Parsed Corpus of Early English Correspondence; 3.2.3 The Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Early Modern English.
- 3.2.4 Combining the three corpora3.2.5 The Drama Corpus; 4. The discourse markers marry, well and why; 4.1 Marry; 4.1.1 Etymology of marry; 4.1.2 Functions; 4.1.3 Previous studies; 4.2 Well; 4.2.1 Etymology of well; 4.2.2 Functions; 4.2.3 Previous studies; 4.3 Why; 4.3.1 Etymology of why; 4.3.2 Functions; 4.3.3 Previous studies; 5. Quantitative analysis; 5.1 Subperiod distribution; 5.2 Text type analysis; 6. Qualitative analysis; 6.1 Marry; 6.1.1 Co-text of use; 6.1.2 Structural functions; 6.1.3 Interactional functions; 6.1.4 Conclusion; 6.2 Well; 6.2.1 Co-text of use.
- 6.2.2 Structural functions6.2.3 Interactional functions; 6.2.4 Conclusion; 6.3 Why; 6.3.1 Co-text of use; 6.3.2 Structural functions; 6.3.3 Interactional functions; 6.3.4 Conclusion; 6.4 Summary; 7. Sociopragmatic analysis; 7.1 Social status distribution; 7.2 Directions of use; 7.3 Gender distribution; 7.4 Conclusion; 8. Conclusion; 8.1 Background and methodology; 8.2 Summary of the findings; 8.2.1 Marry; 8.2.2 Well; 8.2.3 Why; 8.3 Conclusions and suggestions for further research; References; Index.