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Discourse functions at the left and right periphery : crosslinguistic investigations of language use and language change /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Beeching, Kate (Autor, Editor ), Detges, Ulrich (Autor, Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2014]
Colección:Studies in pragmatics ; 12.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Moi je ne sais pas vs. Je ne sais pas moi : French disjoint pronouns in the left vs. right periphery / Ulrich Detges and Richard Waltereit
  • Motivations for meaning shift at the left and right periphery : well, bon and hao / Kate Beeching and Yu-Fang Wang
  • On the function of the epistemic adverbs surely and no doubt at the left and right peripheries of the clause / Elizabeth Closs Traugott
  • Setting up a mental space : a function of discourse markers at the left periphery (LP) and some observations about LP and RP in Japanese / Noriko O. Onodera
  • Italian guarda, prego, dai. Pragmatic markers and the left and right periphery / Chiara Ghezzi and Piera Molinelli
  • 'So very fast then' discourse markers at left and right periphery in spoken French / Liesbeth Degand
  • On the development of sentence final particles (and utterance tags) in Chinese / Foong Ha Yap, Ying Yang and Tak-Sum Wong
  • The interplay of discourse and prosody at the left and right periphery in Korean : an analysis of kuntey 'but' / Sung-Ock S. Sohn and Stephanie Hyeri Kim.