The importance of discourse markers (words like 'so', 'however', and 'well') lies in the theoretical questions they raise about the nature of discourse and the relationship between linguistic meaning and context. They are regarded as being central to semantics because t...

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Main Author:	Blakemore, Diane (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2002
Series:	Cambridge studies in linguistics 99
Subjects:	Discourse markers Semantics Relevance Pragmatics Semantik Pragmatik Englisch Diskursmarker
Online Access:	BSB01 UBG01 Volltext
Summary:	The importance of discourse markers (words like 'so', 'however', and 'well') lies in the theoretical questions they raise about the nature of discourse and the relationship between linguistic meaning and context. They are regarded as being central to semantics because they raise problems for standard theories of meaning, and to pragmatics because they seem to play a role in the way discourse is understood. In this new and important study, Diane Blakemore argues that attempts to analyse these expressions within standard semantic frameworks raise even more problems, while their analysis as expressions that link segments of discourse has led to an unproductive and confusing exercise in classification. She concludes that the exercise in classification that has dominated discourse marker research should be replaced by the investigation of the way in which linguistic expressions contribute to the inferential processes involved in utterance understanding
Item Description:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Physical Description:	1 online resource (viii, 200 pages)
ISBN:	9780511486456
DOI:	10.1017/CBO9780511486456