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Pragmatic Markers in the Corpora
2014An overview of the markers discussed is combined with a description of their development from a grammatical item to pragmatic marker. The choice of Spanish markers, which is the point of departure, is based on their frequency in COLAm, while the English markers are those in COLT that best match the Spanish markers.
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Pragmatic Markers and Pragmaticalization
2012This volume brings together five papers offering cross-linguistic analyses of pragmatic markers involving modality, supplemented by three book reviews on the same topic. The contrastive method, based on monolingual or translation corpora, does not only provide interesting insights about differences with respect to the semantics and the formal encoding ...
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Pragmatic markers, Discourse Markers and Modal Particles
2017This book offers new perspectives into the description of the form, meaning and function of Pragmatic Markers, Discourse Markers and Modal Particles in a number of different languages, along with new methods for identifying their ‘prototypical’ instances in situated language contexts, often based on cross-linguistic comparisons. The papers collected in
Fedriani, Chiara, Sansò, Andrea
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The evolution of pragmatic markers
Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 2005Hansen, Maj-Britt Mosegaard +1 more
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From a pragmatic marker to a direct object marker
Studies in Language, 2002Several researchers have reported the increased use of o and semantic/pragmatic or syntactic motivations for direct object marking based on texts from between the 8th and 11th centuries. However, very few studies documented direct object marking after that period on until Modern Japanese, and the claims regarding semantic/pragmatic or syntactic ...
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A neo-Gricean pragmatic analysis of Chinese pragmatic markers
Language Sciences, 2011Abstract This article presents a pragmatic analysis of Chinese pragmatic markers in Chinese. The analysis is Gricean in spirit but differs from Grice (1989) in that it analyses pragmatic markers as conventional implicature potential bearers rather than conventional implicatures per se.
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Pragmatic Markers in Oral Narrative
2004This book presents the multifunctional nature of pragmatic discourse markers in English and Catalan oral narratives from the point of view of text linguistics and contrastive analysis. It is argued that English and Catalan markers are distributed and operate differently at four different levels in the varied discourse structures of the text, i.e.
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Pragmatic Markers in Irish English
2015This chapter aims to explore how pragmatic markers like and sure behave when investigated from an age and gender perspective. Using a small sociolinguistic-oriented corpus, the study adopts a multidisciplinary approach to reveal insights into socially-conditioned linguistic variation in Irish English.
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