Connectives as Discourse Landmarks

Editors

Agnès Celle | University of Paris-Diderot

Ruth Huart | University of Paris-Diderot

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This set of eleven articles, by linguists from four different European countries and a variety of theoretical backgrounds, takes a new look at the discourse functions of a number of English connectives, from simple coordinators (and, but) to phrases of varying complexity (after all, the fact is that). Using authentic spoken and written data from varied sources, the authors explore the ways in which current uses of connectives result from the interaction of syntax, semantics and prosody, both over time and through diversity of discourse situations. Most adopt an integrative approach in which speaker-listener or writer-reader relationships are viewed as part and parcel of the linguistic properties of each marker. Because it combines functional, generative and enunciative approaches into a coherent whole with a common explanatory aim, this book will be of interest to linguists, corpus-linguists and all those who investigate the semantics-pragmatics interface.

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 161] 2007. viii, 212 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 1 July 2008

https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.161

Table of Contents

List of contributors | pp. vii–viii

Connectives as discourse landmarks

Agnès Celle and Ruth Huart | pp. 1–11

Part I. Connectives and Modality

Connectives, modals and prototypes: A study of rather

Raphael Salkie | pp. 15–30

The interface between discourse and grammar: The fact is that

Karin Aijmer | pp. 31–46

Part II. From Syntax to Pragmatics

And as an aspectual connective in the event structure of pseudo-coordinative constructions

Mark de Vos | pp. 49–70

'Are you a good which or a bad which?' The relative pronoun as a plain connective

Rudy Loock | pp. 71–87

From temporal to contrastive and causal: The emergence of connective after all

Diana M. Lewis | pp. 89–99

Part III. Discourse Strategies

Orchestrating conversation: The multifunctionality of well and you know in the joint construction of a verbal interaction

Barbara Le Lan | pp. 103–116

A because B so A': Circularity and discourse progression in conversational English

Frédérique Passot | pp. 117–134

Not that… versus It's not that…

Ruth Huart | pp. 135–152

Part IV. In Search of Operations

'He's a cop but he isn't a bastard': An enunciative approach to some pragmatic effects of the coordinator but

Martine Sekali | pp. 155–175

Continuity and discontinuity in discourse: Notes on yet and still

Graham Ranger | pp. 177–194

Reconsidering the discourse marking hypothesis. Even, even though, even if, etc. as morpheme/construction pairs

François Nemo | pp. 195–210

Index | pp. 211–212

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