10 Discourse markers and genre
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Abstract
This contribution presents results on addressing discourse markers and genre (specifically, register). This contribution is divided into two main parts: first, a theoretical framework on variation and Romance languages. This study is focused on Romance language approaches to stylistic variation - diaphasic variation in Coseriu (1958) -, and on the relationship among discourse markers, register, and genres in different Romance languages. Second, a corpus study on register and Spanish discourse markers. The departure point of this study is the information retrieved from the Diccionario de Particulas Discursivas del espanol, DPDE (Briz/Pons Borderia/Portoles 2008). This database allows for quantifying differences in register in 107 discourse markers. Results show a quantification of discourse markers in relation with register, discourse units, and functions leading to a global map of polyfunctionality in Peninsular Spanish. The main result obtained is that there is a clear influence of register in the functional spectrum of discourse markers, which is statistically supported.
Abstract
This contribution presents results on addressing discourse markers and genre (specifically, register). This contribution is divided into two main parts: first, a theoretical framework on variation and Romance languages. This study is focused on Romance language approaches to stylistic variation - diaphasic variation in Coseriu (1958) -, and on the relationship among discourse markers, register, and genres in different Romance languages. Second, a corpus study on register and Spanish discourse markers. The departure point of this study is the information retrieved from the Diccionario de Particulas Discursivas del espanol, DPDE (Briz/Pons Borderia/Portoles 2008). This database allows for quantifying differences in register in 107 discourse markers. Results show a quantification of discourse markers in relation with register, discourse units, and functions leading to a global map of polyfunctionality in Peninsular Spanish. The main result obtained is that there is a clear influence of register in the functional spectrum of discourse markers, which is statistically supported.
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Manuals of Romance Linguistics V
- Contents VII
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Part I: What are Discourse Markers?
- 1 Discourse markers: What are they and where do they come from? 1
- 2 Discourse markers vs other types of pragmatic markers 29
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Part II: Discourse Markers at Different Levels of Linguistic Description
- 3 The semantics and pragmatics of discourse markers 65
- 4 The grammatical status of discourse markers 97
- 5 Discourse markers and prosody 129
- 6 Discourse markers and discourse/ conversational units 163
- 7 Clusters of discourse markers 193
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Part III: Approaches to the Study of Discourse Markers
- 8 Discourse markers in a contrastive perspective 227
- 9 Discourse markers and quantitative corpus linguistics 257
- 10 Discourse markers and genre 281
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Part IV: Discourse Markers and Interfaces
- 11 Discourse markers and politeness 319
- 12 Discourse markers and social variation 351
- 13 Discourse markers and second language acquisition 377
- 14 Discourse markers and psycholinguistic processing 413
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Part V: Discourse Markers in the Major Romance Languages
- 15 Discourse markers in French 447
- 16 Discourse markers in Italian 479
- 17 Discourse markers in Spanish 509
- 18 Discourse markers in Catalan 539
- 19 Discourse markers in Portuguese 563
- 20 Discourse markers in Romanian 595
- Index 625
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Manuals of Romance Linguistics V
- Contents VII
-
Part I: What are Discourse Markers?
- 1 Discourse markers: What are they and where do they come from? 1
- 2 Discourse markers vs other types of pragmatic markers 29
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Part II: Discourse Markers at Different Levels of Linguistic Description
- 3 The semantics and pragmatics of discourse markers 65
- 4 The grammatical status of discourse markers 97
- 5 Discourse markers and prosody 129
- 6 Discourse markers and discourse/ conversational units 163
- 7 Clusters of discourse markers 193
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Part III: Approaches to the Study of Discourse Markers
- 8 Discourse markers in a contrastive perspective 227
- 9 Discourse markers and quantitative corpus linguistics 257
- 10 Discourse markers and genre 281
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Part IV: Discourse Markers and Interfaces
- 11 Discourse markers and politeness 319
- 12 Discourse markers and social variation 351
- 13 Discourse markers and second language acquisition 377
- 14 Discourse markers and psycholinguistic processing 413
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Part V: Discourse Markers in the Major Romance Languages
- 15 Discourse markers in French 447
- 16 Discourse markers in Italian 479
- 17 Discourse markers in Spanish 509
- 18 Discourse markers in Catalan 539
- 19 Discourse markers in Portuguese 563
- 20 Discourse markers in Romanian 595
- Index 625
