A Contrastive View of Discourse Markers: Discourse Markers of Saying in English and French

Lansari, Laure

This book is a comparative corpus-based study of discourse markers based on verbs of saying in English and French.  Based on a wide comparable web corpus, the book investigates how discourse markers work in discourse, and compares their differences of position, scope and collocations both cross-linguistically and within single languages. The author positions this study within the wider epistemological background of the French-speaking ‘enunciative’ tradition and the English-speaking ‘pragmatic’ tradition, and it will be of particular interest to students and scholars of semantics, pragmatics and contrastive linguistics.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2020-08-25

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9783030248987

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-24896-3

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 230