Chapter 8. Online text mapping
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Carmela Sammarco
Abstract
This is a corpus driven study on verbless constructions (Cxs[ØVP]) in spoken Italian and French that have a textual naming function, namely verbless constructions that speakers use to name what they are going to talk about. This paper suggests that these constructions are tools that speakers use as structure’s mapping in the discourse to orient the listener and themselves and that build meta-discursive and meta-textual ad hoc categories. These structures are frequent in very high informative texts (i.e. meetings and conferences) and their occurrence correlates with the information’s density in texts.
Abstract
This is a corpus driven study on verbless constructions (Cxs[ØVP]) in spoken Italian and French that have a textual naming function, namely verbless constructions that speakers use to name what they are going to talk about. This paper suggests that these constructions are tools that speakers use as structure’s mapping in the discourse to orient the listener and themselves and that build meta-discursive and meta-textual ad hoc categories. These structures are frequent in very high informative texts (i.e. meetings and conferences) and their occurrence correlates with the information’s density in texts.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Chapter 1. Building categories in interaction 1
- Chapter 2. Ad hoc categorization in linguistic interaction 9
- Chapter 3. Categories at the interface of cognition and action 35
- Chapter 4. Category-building lists between grammar and interaction 73
- Chapter 5. Are new words predictable? 111
- Chapter 6. The Camel Humps prosodic pattern 155
- Chapter 7. Making the implicit explicit 187
- Chapter 8. Online text mapping 211
- Chapter 9. Exemplification in interaction 239
- Chapter 10. The on-line construction of meaning in Mandarin Chinese 271
- Chapter 11. Et cetera, eccetera, etc. The development of a general extender from Latin to Italian 295
- Chapter 12. Morphopragmatics of rhyming and imitative co-compounds in Russian 317
- Chapter 13. Encoding ad hoc categories in Georgian 355
- Chapter 14. French type-noun constructions based on genre 373
- Chapter 15. In a manner of speaking 415
- Chapter 16. Why it’s hard to construct ad hoc number concepts 439
- Index 463
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Chapter 1. Building categories in interaction 1
- Chapter 2. Ad hoc categorization in linguistic interaction 9
- Chapter 3. Categories at the interface of cognition and action 35
- Chapter 4. Category-building lists between grammar and interaction 73
- Chapter 5. Are new words predictable? 111
- Chapter 6. The Camel Humps prosodic pattern 155
- Chapter 7. Making the implicit explicit 187
- Chapter 8. Online text mapping 211
- Chapter 9. Exemplification in interaction 239
- Chapter 10. The on-line construction of meaning in Mandarin Chinese 271
- Chapter 11. Et cetera, eccetera, etc. The development of a general extender from Latin to Italian 295
- Chapter 12. Morphopragmatics of rhyming and imitative co-compounds in Russian 317
- Chapter 13. Encoding ad hoc categories in Georgian 355
- Chapter 14. French type-noun constructions based on genre 373
- Chapter 15. In a manner of speaking 415
- Chapter 16. Why it’s hard to construct ad hoc number concepts 439
- Index 463
