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Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 21:48:29
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Information-Structural Perspectives on Discourse Particles: Modicom, Duplâtre (eds.)

 


Title: Information-Structural Perspectives on Discourse Particles 
Series Title: Studies in Language Companion Series 213  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/slcs.213 


Editor: Pierre-Yves Modicom
Editor: Olivier Duplâtre

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027261465 Pages: 304 Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027261465 Pages: 304 Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027261465 Pages: 304 Price: Europe EURO 99.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027205056 Pages: 304 Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027205056 Pages: 304 Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027205056 Pages: 304 Price: Europe EURO 104.94


Abstract:

The articles collected in this volume offer new perspectives into the
relevance of notions such as topic, antitopic, contrastive topic, focus, verum
focus and theticity for the analysis of the syntax and semantics of modal
particles, sentence-final particles and other medial, sentential and
illocutive particles. This book addresses three great questions in a variety
of languages ranging from Japanese to Mohawk, including Basque, French,
German, Italian, Kazakh, Spanish and Turkish, with some insights from English
and Russian. The first question is the role played by information-structural
strategies such as left dislocations, clefts or the morphological marking of
focus in the rise of discourse particles. In the second part, papers are
concerned with the relevance of information structure for the study of
polysemic and polyfunctional discourse particles. Finally, the contribution of
particles to the determination of the information-structural profile of the
clause is examined, as well as their role in the information-structural
specification of illocutionary types. Language-specific papers alternate with
comparative approaches in order to show how newer insights on information
structure can help resolve some of the classical issues of the linguistic
research on particles.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Linguistic Theories
                     Pragmatics
                     Semantics
                     Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)

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