Overview
- Provides a theory that explains the various occurrences of discourse markers in a unified way
- Takes into account the flexibility of language
- Offers an invaluable translation and adaptation of French terminology
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- TOPE
- Natural language argumentation
- Formal semantics
- Formal semantic modelling
- Didactics
- Theory of Enunciative and Predicative Operations
- semantics
- pragmatics
- corpus linguistics
- poststructuralism
- discourse marker
- Antoine Culioli
- pragmatic marker
- grammaticalization
- multicategoriality
- multifunctionality
- polysemy
- schematic forms
- discourse analysis
About this book
In our everyday speech we represent events and situations, but we also provide commentary on these representations, situating ourselves and others relative to what we have to say and situating what we say in larger contexts. The present volume examines this activity of discourse marking from an enunciative perspective, providing the first English-language study of the highly influential Theory of Enunciative and Predicative Operations. This semantic/pragmatic theory is popular among academics who specialize in linguistics, discourse analysis, translation studies and didactics in France, but has not yet been widely adopted elsewhere. The tools of this theory are applied to a variety of specific discourse markers in contemporary English and semantic hypotheses are tested using the data-based approach of corpus linguistics. This book therefore provides an English-speaking readership with the keys to understand the theory underlying the author’s analysis of a selection of markers (‘anyway’, ‘indeed’, ‘in fact’, ‘yet’, ‘still’, ‘like’ and 'I think'). This book will provide a valuable resource for students and researchers in linguistics with an interest in discourse markers, natural language argumentation, formal semantics, the interfaces between syntax, semantics and pragmatics, linguistic theorisation and French – or “poststructural” – models of discourse analysis.
Reviews
“This book is an extremely valuable contribution to the study of discourse markers from an enunciative perspective. It begins at the beginning, with a thorough, yet accessible, introduction to the Theory of Enunciative and Predicative Operations. It then proceeds through a comprehensive review of previous works to a corpus-based study of discourse markers in English. I highly recommend this book for any student or advanced researcher looking for a solid, consistent theoretical modelto capture the inherent variability of discourse markers.” (Guillaume Desagulier, Université Paris Nanterre, France)
“This book will most certainly create a greater awareness and appreciation of Culioli’s Theory of Enunciative and Predicative Operations as a framework for modeling natural language activity. The advantages of the method are illustrated by the insightful analysis of the discourse markers anyway, in fact and indeed and I think.” (Karin Aijmer, University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Graham Ranger is Professor of English Linguistics at the Université d’Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse, France.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Discourse Markers
Book Subtitle: An Enunciative Approach
Authors: Graham Ranger
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70905-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-70904-8Published: 20 February 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-89008-1Published: 06 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-70905-5Published: 10 February 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 314
Number of Illustrations: 39 b/w illustrations
Topics: Discourse Analysis, Semantics, Syntax, Theoretical Linguistics, Pragmatics, Corpus Linguistics