Discourse Markers Across Languages: A Contrastive Study of Second-Level Discourse Markers in Native and Non-Native Text with Implications for General and Pedagogic Lexicography

by Dirk,Siepmann

• ISBN13: 9780415349499
• ISBN10: 0415349494
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-05-16
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book offers a corpus-based comparative study of an almost entirely unexplored set of multi-word lexical items serving pragmatic or text-structuring functions. Part One provides a descriptive account of multi-word discourse markers in written English, French and German, focussing on discussion of interlingual equivalence. Part Two examines the use of multi-word markers by non-native speakers of English and discusses lexicographical and pedagogical implications.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
What this book is about	xii
Acknowledgements	xiii
PART I Linguistic considerations	1	(240)
1 Observing languages: introduction to Part I	3	(31)
1.1 Aims, scope and methodology	3	(19)
1.2 Corpora and corpus-enquiry tools	22	(12)
2 Investigating routines: defining and describing multi-word discourse markers	34	(48)
2.1 Pragmatic perspectives on discourse markers	37	(8)
2.2 Lexicological perspectives on multi-word discourse markers	45	(7)
2.3 Syntactic realizations of SLDMs	52	(30)
3 Identifying meanings and functions: an attempt at a functional taxonomy of SLDMs	82	(24)
3.1 Introduction	82	(1)
3.2 Language functions and textual relations	82	(5)
3.3 A taxonomy of SLDMs	87	(11)
3.4 Points of interest	98	(8)
4 Straddling cultures: three types of second-level discourse markers in contrastive perspective	106	(135)
4.1 Exemplifiers	111	(30)
4.2 Reformulators and resumers	141	(78)
4.3 Inferrers	219	(20)
4.4 Summary and conclusion	239	(2)
PART II A contrastive interlanguage analysis with implications for dictionary making	241	(86)
1 Introduction	243	(2)
2 Facing realities: the performance of non-native writers and translators	245	(38)
2.1 Interlanguage analysis	246	(6)
2.2 German writers' performance in the field of discourse markers	252	(26)
2.3 Translations under the spotlight	278	(4)
2.4 Conclusion	282	(1)
3 Lexicographic treatment of SLDMs	283	(42)
3.1 Lexicographic coverage of SLDMs	283	(7)
3.2 Macrostructural and microstructural treatment of SLDMs	290	(18)
3.3 Sample entries	308	(17)
4 Avenues for further research	325	(2)
Notes	327	(3)
Bibliography	330	(21)
Index	351