33.1750, Books: Discourse Structuring Markers in English: Traugott

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Date: Tue, 17 May 2022 14:08:48
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Discourse Structuring Markers in English: Traugott

 


Title: Discourse Structuring Markers in English 
Subtitle: A historical constructionalist perspective on pragmatics 
Series Title: Constructional Approaches to Language 33  

Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/cal.33 


Author: Elizabeth Closs Traugott

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027257925 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027257925 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 80.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027257925 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 95.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027210913 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027210913 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 80.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027210913 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 100.70


Abstract:

This book is a contribution to the growing field of diachronic construction
grammar. Focus is on corpus evidence for the importance of including
conventionalized pragmatics within construction grammar and suggestions for
how to do so. The empirical domain is the development of Discourse Structuring
Markers in English such as "after all, also, all the same, by the way,
further" and "moreover" (also known as Discourse Markers). The term Discourse
Structuring Markers highlights their use not only to connect discourse
segments but also to shape discourse coherence and understanding.
Monofunctional Discourse Structuring Markers like "further, instead, moreover"
are distinguished from multifunctional ones like "after all" and "by the way".
Drawing on usage-based work on constructionalization and constructional
changes, the book is in three parts: foundational concepts, case studies, and
currently open issues in diachronic construction grammar. These open issues
are how to incorporate the concepts subjectification and intersubjectification
into a constructional account of change, whether position in a clause is a
construction, and the nature of constructional networks and how they change.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Historical Linguistics
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): English (eng)


Written In: English  (eng)

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