Argument and rhetoric: adverbial connectors in the history of English
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1. Verfasser: Lenker, Ursula (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berlin De Gruyter Mouton © 2010
Schriftenreihe:Topics in English linguistics 64
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-275) and indexes
Frontmatter; Contents; List of abbreviations; 1. The framework; 2. Clausal connection; 3. The category "adverb"; 4. Adverbs and conjunctions in earlier metalinguistic thought; 5. Connectors in Old English; 6. Adverbial connectors in the history of English; 7. Adverbial connectors: morphology; 8. Cognitive source domains; 9. Shifting deictics in the history of English causal connection; 10. contrast/concession; 11. addition; 12. transition; 13. Perspicuity and the "New Rhetoric"; 14. Conclusions; Backmatter
The book is the first corpus-based study giving a comprehensive overview of English items which have been used as adverbial connectors ('conjuncts', 'linking adverbials'), from Old English to Present-Day English. The author analyses different characteristics of the make-up, functions and use of connectives, and considers morphological and syntactic factors as well as pragmatic, textlinguistic and socio-cultural aspects
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 293 pages)
ISBN:3110205580
311021606X
9783110205589
9783110216066

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