Pragmatic markers in oral narrative : the case of English and Catalan /

This book presents the multifunctional nature of pragmatic discourse markers in English and Catalan oral narratives from the point of view of text linguistics and contrastive analysis. It is argued that English and Catalan markers are distributed and operate differently at four different levels in t...

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Huvudupphovsman: González, Montserrat
Materialtyp: Licensed eBooks
Språk:engelska
Publicerad: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., ©2004.
Serie:Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 122.
Länkar:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=148656
Innehållsförteckning:
  • Pragmatic Markers in Oral Narrative
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • LCC page
  • Dedication page
  • Contents
  • Index of tables and figures
  • Index of appendixes
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1. Introduction
  • Part I. Theoretical and methodological framework
  • 2. Preliminary definitions
  • 3. The role of discourse markers in narrative structure
  • 4. The study
  • Part II. Pragmatic markers in narrative structure
  • 5. Pragmatic markers in English narrative structure
  • 6. Pragmatic markers in Catalan narrative structure
  • 7. Contrastive analysis of English and Catalan pragmatic markers
  • 8. Conclusions
  • Notes
  • Appendixes
  • References
  • Index
  • The Pragmatics &amp
  • Beyond New Series.