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Profiling discourse participants : forms and functions in Spanish conversation and debates /

The construction of discourse is a challenging field where many discourse structures and interactional effects remain poorly understood. This analysis provides a systematic explanation for the way in which discourse participants (speaker and hearer) are construed in Spanish through a corpus-driven a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cock, Barbara De (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014.
Colección:Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 246.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Profiling Discourse Participants; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; List of figures ; List of tables ; List of abbreviations ; Acknowledgements ; Chapter I. General introduction ; 1. Background and objectives ; 2. Outline ; 3. Theoretical framework ; 3.1 Conceptualisation ; 3.2 (Inter)subjectivity ; 3.3 Contextual identity ; 3.4 Participant status ; 3.5 Genre ; 4. Methodology ; 4.1 Corpus ; 4.2 Glosses ; Chapter II. Person deixis ; 1. Introduction ; 1.1 An overview ; 1.2 Deixis in Spanish ; 1.3 Distribution of person deixis in my data ; 1.4 Hypotheses.
  • 2. Singular addresser/addressee 2.1 Communication ; 2.2 Cognition and opinion ; 2.3 Agent profiling ; 2.4 Contextual identity: Personal profiling ; 2.5 Interaction and (inter)subjectivity ; 3. Plural addresser/addressee ; 3.1 Conceptual vagueness ; 3.2 Plural vs. singular ; 4. Tonic pronouns ; 4.1 Identification by means of tonic pronouns ; 4.2 Subject pronouns ; 4.3 Oblique pronouns ; 5. An integrated account of person deixis ; Chapter III. Discourse participant profiling beyond person deixis ; 1. Hypotheses ; 2. Subject NP ; 3. Quantifiers ; 4. Vocatives ; 5. Presentatives.
  • 6. Appositions and relatives 7. Space-builders ; 8. Discourse markers ; 9. Profiling the addresser and addressee ; Chapter IV. Indeterminate constructions ; 1. Introduction ; 1.1 Indeterminate constructions: An overview ; 1.2 Distribution ; 1.3 Hypotheses: Towards an integrated analysis of indeterminacy ; 2. Indeterminacy of the person referring expression vs. indeterminacy of the construction ; 2.1 Indeterminacy of the person referring expression ; 2.2 Indeterminacy of the construction ; 3. Tense and modality ; 4. Scope restriction ; 4.1 Verb semantics.
  • 4.2 Interaction with other person reference devices 4.3 Space-builders ; 4.4 Subordination and coordination ; 4.5 Conclusions ; 5. Functioning in the discourse context ; 6. Bringing the referential and non-referential functions together ; 7. Indeterminacy as a choice ; Chapter V. Discourse participant profiling ; 1. Hypotheses ; 2. Discourse participant profiling ; 2.1 Identification ; 2.2 Predicates and (inter)subjectivity ; 2.3 Structuring the interaction ; 2.4 A panorama of discourse participant profiling ; 3. Genre ; 3.1 Genre, register, mode ; 3.2 Informal conversation ; 3.3 TV-debates.
  • 3.4 Parliamentary debates 3.5 Towards a typology of spoken genres ; Chapter VI. Conclusions and prospects for further research ; 1. Conclusions ; 2. Prospects for further research ; References ; Index.