Novedad bibliográfica: ROMERA, M. Discourse Functional Units. The expression of coherence relations in spoken Spanish. München: LINCOM GmbH

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                        Novedad bibliográfica:
    ROMERA, Magdalena. 2003. Discourse Functional Units. The
expression of coherence relations in spoken Spanish. München: LINCOM
GmbH (Series Title: LINCOM Studies in Romance Linguistics 41,
Paperback, ISBN
3 89586 815 9. LINCOM Studies in Romance Linguistics 41. 180 pp., EUR 54).
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                               Abstract:

    This study addresses the issue of the definition of Discourse
Markers (DMs) in the light of an exclusively functional perspective.
The discourse model adopted is based on the notion of coherence
relations (Sanders et al., 1992; Hobbs, 1990, 1995). Within this
framework, two types of elements are distinguished:

    - Discourse Propositional Units (DPUs) or discourse segments that
      bear propositional content, and
    - Discourse Functional Units (DFUs) or elements that bear primarily
      a procedural meaning, transmitting information on how
      propositional units relate.

DFUs are defined on the basis of functional criteria alone, i.e., any
expressions whose function is to offer information on how to interpret
DPUs is a DFU.

    The advantage of this perspective is that it opens up the limits of
the category of DMs: many of the forms traditionally considered DMs
could now be considered DFUs as well, but also, from a functional
perspective, DFUs need not be restricted to pragmatic contexts. This
theoretical framework is used to analyze data from natural
conversations in Peninsular Spanish.

    The relations expressed by several Spanish DFUs are studied
quantitatively, and the theoretical relevance of the findings for a
general theory of DFUs is also discussed.

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