Discourse Markers: An Enunciative Approach
by Graham Ranger /
2018 / English / PDF
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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.
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.