Cause - Condition - Concession - Contrast: Cognitive and Discourse Perspectives

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Cause - Condition - Concession - Contrast

Cognitive and Discourse Perspectives

Edited by: Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen and Bernd Kortmann

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2000

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Volume 33 | Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL]

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Linguistics and Semiotics Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines General Linguistics
Linguistics and Semiotics Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines Cognitive Linguistics
Linguistics and Semiotics Germanic Languages Germanic Languages, other

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Introduction Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen and Bernd Kortmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I. Cause
The relevance of causality Paul Georg Meyer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
On the processing of causal relations Leo G. M. Noordman and Femke de Blijzer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
Domains of use or subjectivity? The distribution of three Dutch causal connectives explained Henk Pander Maat and Ted Sanders Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
Causal relations in spoken discourse: Asyndetic constructions as a means for giving reasons Christine Göhl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
II. Condition
Constructions with if, since, and because. Causality, epistemic stance, and clause order Barbara Dancygier and Eve Sweetser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
On affirmative and negative complex conditional connectives Estrella Montolío Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
Pre- and post-positioning of wenn-clauses in spoken and written German Peter Auer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
Counterfactual reasoning and desirability Noriko McCawley Akatsuka and Susan Strauss Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
III. Contrast
Adversative connectors on distinct levels of discourse: A re-examination of Eve Sweetser's three-level approach Ewald Lang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
Viewpoints and polysemy: Linking adversative and causal meanings of discourse markers Scott A. Schwenter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
The treatment of contrasts in interaction Cecilia E. Ford Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
IV. Concession
Concessives on different semantic levels: A typological perspective Mily Grevels Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	313
Causal and concessive clauses: Formal and semantic relations Ekkehard König and Peter Siemund Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	341
Concession implies causality, though in some other space Arie Verhagen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	361
Concessive patterns in conversation Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen and Sandra A. Thompson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	381
"that's true, although not really, but still": Expressing concession in spoken English Dagmar Barth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	411
From concessive connector to discourse marker: The use of obwohl in everyday German interaction Susanne Günthner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	439
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	469
Authors' addresses Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	473
Topics in English Linguistics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	477

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September 24, 2009

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9783110219043

Hardcover published on:

June 15, 2000

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110166903

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6

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475

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110219043

eBook ISBN: 9783110219043

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110166903

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Englisch; Syntax; Kognitive Grammatik

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