Establishing diagnostic criteria: the role of clinical pragmatics [PDF]
, 2012 The study of pragmatic disorders is of interest to speech-language pathologists who have a professional responsibility to assess and treat communication impairments.
Cummings, L
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Discourse Markers and Modal Expressions in Speakers with and without Asperger Syndrome: A Pragmatic-Perceptive Approach [PDF]
, 2014 From a theoretical point of view, this paper offers a new framework for the analysis of discourse markers: a pragmatic-perceptive model that emphasizes the point of the communication process in which such particles become more relevant. Furthermore, this
Muñoz, Francisco J. Rodríguez
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Towards a constructional approach to discourse-level phenomena : the case of the Spanish interpersonal epistemic stance construction [PDF]
, 2018 This study contributes to a better understanding of how constructional models can be applied to discourse-level phenomena, and constitute a valuable complementation to previous grammaticalization accounts of pragmatic markers.
Enghels, Renata
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The modal particle ma 嘛: theoretical frames, analysis and interpretive perspectives [PDF]
, 2017 This article sets out to provide a semantic and pragmatic account of the modal particle ma 嘛, endeavouring to put into light new aspects in its function which, at present, remain widely unexplored in the literature.
Lepadat, Carmen
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Pragmatic Markers in Eugene O’Neill’s Ile: Discourse Coherence Relations
Nobel: Journal of Literature and Language Teaching, 2015 This study aimed to investigate the types of pragmatic markers in a drama entitled Ile. The study is based on Fraser’s theories of pragmatic markers and discourse coherence relations.
Riza Astutie, Rommy D. B. Rambet
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West Flemish verb-based discourse markers and the articulation of the Speech Act layer [PDF]
, 2014 This paper focuses on the West Flemish discourse markers located at the edge of the clause. After a brief survey of the distribution of discourse markers in WF, the paper proposes a syntactic analysis of the discourse markers ne and we.
Aboh +39 more
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Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2020 Discourse management markers (DMMs) that “signal a meta-comment on the structure of the discourse” (Fraser 2009) are widely attested in historical data. Most discourse management markers (e.g.
Elizabeth Closs Traugott
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Direct speech, subjectivity and speaker positioning in London English and Paris French [PDF]
, 2018 This paper examines functional similarities and differences in the use of pragmatic features – in particular quotatives and general extenders – on the right and left periphery of direct quotations.
Andersen +11 more
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The pragmatic markers anyway, okay, and shame: A South African English corpus study
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2013 Pragmatic markers are “a class of short, recurrent linguistic items that generally have little lexical import but serve significant pragmatic functions in conversation” (Andersen 2001:39).
Huddlestone, Kate, Fairhurst, Melanie
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On general extenders in literary translation and all that stuff
Open Linguistics, 2023 The present article focuses on strategies for translating general extenders (GEs) from English into Romanian. Starting from the generally accepted definition of GEs as structures that extend utterances that are otherwise grammatically complete and that ...
Vișan Nadina
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