Discourse Markers in Early Modern English
Birmingham City University
This volume provides new insights into the nature of the Early Modern English discourse markers marry, well and why through the analysis of three corpora (A Corpus of English Dialogues, 1560-1760, the Parsed Corpus of Early English Correspondence, and the Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Early Modern English). By combining both quantitative and qualitative approaches in the study of pragmatic markers, innovative findings are reached about their distribution throughout the period 1500-1760, their attestation in different speech-related text types as well as similarities and differences in their functions. Additionally, this work engages in a sociopragmatic study, based on the sociopragmatically annotated Drama Corpus of almost a quarter of a million words, to enhance our understanding about their use by characters of different social status and gender. This volume therefore constitutes an essential piece of the puzzle in our attempt to gain a full picture of discourse marker use.
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 227]
2012.
ix, 293 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Hardbound – Available
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9789027256324
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95.00
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143.00
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9789027273284
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95.00
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Table of Contents
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Acknowledgements
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ix
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1. Introduction
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1–8
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2. Discourse markers
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9–44
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3. Methodology and data
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45–68
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4. The discourse markers marry, well and why
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69–90
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5. Quantitative analysis
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91–110
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6. Qualitative analysis
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111–242
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7. Sociopragmatic analysis
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243–264
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8. Conclusion
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265–272
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References
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273–290
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Index
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291–293
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Quotes
“Ursula Lutzky’s work perfectly fits into the still relatively new, but rapidly expanding, research fields of historical sociopragmatics and diachronic corpus linguistics, providing a systematic and innovative account of three English discourse markers. Quite aside from the valuable data collection and systematisation, the work offers exhaustive accounts of the methodologies adopted and of the increasingly large body of literature in this field. As a specialist in historical pragmatics, with an interest in the relatively elusive and classification-defying behaviour of discourse markers, I am looking forward to having this book available in the library!”
Gabriella Mazzon, University of Innsbruck
“Ursula Lutzky’s book on discourse markers in Early Modern English has an innovative approach as it uses a sociopragmatically annotated corpus as (part of) its data. The analysis works well and can serve as a model for other researchers.”
Irma Taavitsainen, University of Helsinki
“This in-depth, scholarly treatment of several Early Modern discourse markers is unsurpassed. By incorporating social factors within its corpus method, it pushes forward the boundaries of both historical corpus linguistics and sociopragmatics.”
Jonathan Culpeper, University of Lancaster
Subjects
Benjamins Subject classification
BIC Subject
CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics
U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2012026170