Contrastive Pragmatics
Special Issue of Languages in Contrast 9:1 (2009)
Editor
Karin Aijmer | University of Gothenburg [Languages in Contrast, 9:1] 2009. 182 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Introductionpp. 1–4
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Modality and ENGAGEMENT in British and German political interviewsAnnette Becker | pp. 5–22
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The intersubjective function of modal adverbs: A contrastive English-French study of adverbs in journalistic discourseAgnès Celle | pp. 23–36
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Intersubjective positioning in French and English: A contrastive analysis of ‘ça dépend’ and ‘it depends’Bart Defrancq and Bernard De Clerck | pp. 37–72
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Challenges in contrast: A function-to-form approachAnita Fetzer | pp. 73–97
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Interruption in advanced learner French: Issues of pragmatic discriminationMarie-Noëlle Guillot | pp. 98–123
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Closeness and distance: The changing relationship to the audience in the American TV news show “CBS Evening News” and the Swiss “Tagesschau”Martin Luginbühl | pp. 124–143
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The nominative and infinitive in English and Dutch: An exercise in contrastive diachronic construction grammarDirk Noël and Timothy Colleman | pp. 144–181
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