Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I. Corpus-based studies
5. Chapter 1. Challenges in the contrastive study of discourse markers 17
6. Chapter 2. Local vs. global scope of discourse markers 43
7. Chapter 3. Prosodic versatility, hierarchical rank and pragmatic function in conversational markers 61
8. Chapter 4. A preliminary typology of interactional figures based on a tool for visualizing conversational structure 93
9. Chapter 5. Causal relations between discourse and grammar 131
10. Chapter 6. A corpus-based comparative study of concessive connectives in English, German and Spanish 151
11. Part II. Experiment-based studies
12. Chapter 7. Processing patterns of focusing in Spanish 195
13. Chapter 8. Expectation changes over time 229
14. Chapter 9. Processing implicit and explicit causality in Spanish 253
15. Part III. Combined approaches
16. Chapter 10. Subjectivity and Causality in discourse and cognition 273
17. Chapter 11. Subjectivity of English connectives 299
18. Index 319