31.3408, Books: Demonstratives in discourse: Næss, Margetts, Treis (eds.)

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Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2020 22:47:38
From: Sebastian Nordhoff [Sebastian.Nordhoff at langsci-press.org]
Subject: Demonstratives in discourse: Næss, Margetts, Treis (eds.)

 


Title: Demonstratives in discourse 
Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Language Science Press
	   http://langsci-press.org
	

Book URL: https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/282 


Editor: Åshild Næss
Editor: Anna Margetts
Editor: Yvonne Treis

Electronic: ISBN:  9783961102860 Pages: 360 Price: Europe EURO 0 Comment: Open Access


Abstract:

This volume explores the use of demonstratives in the structuring and
management of discourse, and their role as engagement expressions, from a
crosslinguistic perspective. It seeks to establish which types of
discourse-related functions are commonly encoded by demonstratives, beyond the
well-established reference-tracking and deictic uses, and also investigates
which members of demonstrative paradigms typically take on certain functions.
Moreover, it looks at the roles of non-deictic demonstratives, that is,
members of the paradigm which are dedicated e.g. to contrastive,
recognitional, or anaphoric functions and do not express deictic distinctions.
Several of the studies also focus on manner demonstratives, which have been
little studied from a crosslinguistic perspective. The volume thus broadens
the scope of investigation of demonstratives to look at how their core
functions interact with a wider range of discourse functions in a number of
different languages. The volume covers languages from a range of geographical
locations and language families, including Cushitic and Mande languages in
Africa, Oceanic and Papuan languages in the Pacific region, Algonquian and
Guaykuruan in the Americas, and Germanic, Slavic and Finno-Ugric languages in
the Eurasian region. It also includes two papers taking a broader typological
approach to specific discourse functions of demonstratives.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics
                     Semantics
                     Typology


Written In: English  (eng)

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