Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements VII
3. Contents IX
4. Abbreviations XIII
5. Index of Figures XVII
6. Index of Tables XIX
7. 1 Introduction 1
8. Part I: Meta-discourse, spoken discourse, stance-taking
9. 2 Meta-discourse: definitions, strategies and functions 15
10. 3 The epistemological value of the investigation of spoken discourse 49
11. Part II: Methodological considerations
12. 4 Subject of analysis, corpus, and annotation scheme 79
13. Part III: Meta-discourse in spoken Italian
14. 5 Meta-discourse and speaker-oriented domain 107
15. 6 Meta-discourse and textual domain 160
16. 7 Meta-discourse and interpersonal domain 202
17. 8 Summary and conclusions 247
18. References 259