Discourse Markers in Early Modern English

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-272-5632-4
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Buch, Englisch, Band 227, 293 Seiten, Gewicht: 695 g

Reihe: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series

This volume provides new insights into the nature of the Early Modern English discourse markers marry, well and why through the analysis of three corpora (A Corpus of English Dialogues, 1560-1760, the Parsed Corpus of Early English Correspondence, and the Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Early Modern English). By combining both quantitative and qualitative approaches in the study of pragmatic markers, innovative findings are reached about their distribution throughout the period 1500-1760, their attestation in different speech-related text types as well as similarities and differences in their functions. Additionally, this work engages in a sociopragmatic study, based on the sociopragmatically annotated Drama Corpus of almost a quarter of a million words, to enhance our understanding about their use by characters of different social status and gender. This volume therefore constitutes an essential piece of the puzzle in our attempt to gain a full picture of discourse marker use.This book won the 2014 ESSE book award in English Language and Linguistics

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lutzky, Ursula

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sprachsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
ix
1. Introduction
1 – 8
2. Discourse markers
9 – 44
3. Methodology and data
45 – 68
4. The discourse markers marry, well and why
69 – 90
5. Quantitative analysis
91 – 110
6. Qualitative analysis
111 – 242
7. Sociopragmatic analysis
243 – 264
8. Conclusion
265 – 272
References
273 – 290
Index
291 – 293