Contrastive Pragmatics

Special Issue of Languages in Contrast 9:1 (2009)

Editor
ORCID logoKarin Aijmer | University of Gothenburg
[Languages in Contrast, 9:1] 2009.  182 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 24 March 2009
Table of Contents
Introduction
1–4
Articles
Modality and ENGAGEMENT in British and German political interviews
Annette Becker
5–22
The intersubjective function of modal adverbs: A contrastive English-French study of adverbs in journalistic discourse
Agnès Celle
23–36
Intersubjective positioning in French and English: A contrastive analysis of ‘ça dépend’ and ‘it depends’
Bart Defrancq and Bernard De Clerck
37–72
Challenges in contrast: A function-to-form approach
Anita Fetzer
73–97
Interruption in advanced learner French: Issues of pragmatic discrimination
Marie-Noëlle Guillot
98–123
Closeness and distance: The changing relationship to the audience in the American TV news show “CBS Evening News” and the Swiss “Tagesschau”
Martin Luginbühl
124–143
The nominative and infinitive in English and Dutch: An exercise in contrastive diachronic construction grammar
Dirk Noël and Timothy Colleman
144–181
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