Pragmatic Markers and Pragmaticalization: Lessons from false friends

Editors

Peter Lauwers | Ghent University and University of Leuven

Gudrun Vanderbauwhede | University of Leuven

Stijn Verleyen | University of Leuven and Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO)

[Languages in Contrast, 10:2] 2010. vi, 168 pp.

Publishing status: Available

Table of Contents

Obituary: In memory of Stig Johansson (1939–2010)	125–128
Introduction
How false friends give true hints about pragmatic markers Peter Lauwers, Gudrun Vanderbauwhede and Stijn Verleyen	129–138
Articles
Semantic change: Evidence from false friends Kate Beeching	139–165
Degrees of pragmaticalization: The divergent histories of ‘actually’ and actuellement Tine Defour, Ulrique D'Hondt, Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen and Dominique Willems	166–193
“You’re absolutely right!!” A corpus-based contrastive analysis of ‘absolutely’ in British English and absolutamente in Peninsular Spanish, with special emphasis on the relationship between degree and certainty Marta Carretero	194–222
The imperative of intentional visual perception as a pragmatic marker: A contrastive study of Dutch, English and Romance Daniël Van Olmen	223–244
É vida, olha…: Imperatives as discourse markers and grammaticalization paths in Romance: A diachronic corpus study Benjamin Fagard	245–267
Reviews
Review of Dostie (2004): Pragmaticalisation et marqueurs discursifs: analyse sémantique et traitement lexicographique Reviewed by Thomas Van Damme	269–276
Review of Aijmer & Simon-Vandenbergen (2006): Pragmatic Markers in Contrast Reviewed by Victorine Hancock	277–281
Review of Waltereit (2006): Abtönung. Zur Pragmatik und historischen Semantik von Modalpartikeln und ihren funktionalen Äquivalenten in romanischen Sprachen Reviewed by Steven Schoonjans	282–287

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