Pragmatic markers in contrast (Elsevier, 2006)
Includes bibliographical references
Building on the first volume in the Studies in Pragmatics series which clearly set out the differences and similarities in approaches to discourse markers, Pragmatic Markers in Contrast continues the debate through offering a unique and thorough examination of the methods and theories for studying pragmatic markers cross-linguistically. As a result of internationalisation and new developments in linguistics there has been an increasing interest in cross-linguistic studies. Aijmer and Simon-Vandenbergen have assembled experts in this field to explore the comparison of pragmatic markers across l
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- The Function of Adverbial Connectors in Second Initial Position in English and Swedish -- The English Pragmatic Marker surely and its Functional Counterparts in Spanish -- Polysemy Patterns in Contrast: The Case of Dutch toch and German doch -- On the Universality of Discourse Markers -- "Not now" -- On Non-Correspondence between the Cognate Adverbs now and nå -- How Well can well be Translated? On the English Discourse Particle well and its Correspondences in Norwegian and German -- Contrastive Analysis of Adversative Relational Markers, Using Comparable Corpora -- The Spanish Discourse Markers o sea and pues and their English Correspondences -- Aspectual Particles in some European Languages -- Dialogistic Positions and Anticipated Audiences -- A Framework for Stylistic Comparisons -- Vraiment and really in Contrast. When Truth and Reality Meet -- Constructions in Cross-Language Research. Verbs as Pragmatic Particles in Solv -- Last Page