Empirical Studies of the Construction of Discourse
Editors
This volume assembles eleven articles addressing current concerns in discourse studies from an empirical perspective. Engaging with highly topical issues, they indicate the potential of an approach to the construction of discourse via corpus-based analysis, experimentation, or combined methodologies. The subject matters of the contributions, delivered by renowned scholars and dealing with either one or several languages, range from mechanisms through which information structure, connection and discourse organization are realized, to prosody as a determinant of hierarchy and specific functions of discourse markers, as well as innovative tools for visualizing discourse structure. The resulting volume addresses scholars working in a variety of topics, who either wish to incorporate empirical methods to their research or whose work is already empirically oriented and wish to gain insight into empirical evidence on state-of-the-art discursive phenomena.
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 305] 2019. vi, 321 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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IntroductionÓscar Loureda, Inés Recio Fernández, Adriana Cruz and Laura Nadal | pp. 1–14
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Part I. Corpus-based studies
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Chapter 1. Challenges in the contrastive study of discourse markers: The case of thenKarin Aijmer | pp. 17–42
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Chapter 2. Local vs. global scope of discourse markers: Corpus-based evidence from syntax and pausesLudivine Crible | pp. 43–60
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Chapter 3. Prosodic versatility, hierarchical rank and pragmatic function in conversational markersAntonio Hidalgo Navarro and Diana Martínez Hernández | pp. 61–92
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Chapter 4. A preliminary typology of interactional figures based on a tool for visualizing conversational structureGuadalupe Espinosa-Guerri and Amparo García-Ramón | pp. 93–130
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Chapter 5. Causal relations between discourse and grammar: Because in spoken French and DutchLiesbeth Degand | pp. 131–150
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Chapter 6. A corpus-based comparative study of concessive connectives in English, German and Spanish: The distribution of although, obwohl and aunque in the Europarl corpusVolker Gast | pp. 151–192
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Part II. Experiment-based studies
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Chapter 7. Processing patterns of focusing in SpanishAdriana Cruz and Óscar Loureda | pp. 195–228
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Chapter 8. Expectation changes over time: How long it takes to process focus imposed by German sogarJohannes Gerwien and Martha Rudka | pp. 229–252
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Chapter 9. Processing implicit and explicit causality in SpanishLaura Nadal* and Inés Recio Fernández** | pp. 253–270
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Part III. Combined approaches
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Chapter 10. Subjectivity and Causality in discourse and cognition: Evidence from corpus analyses, acquisition and processingTed J. M. Sanders and Jacqueline Evers-Vermeul | pp. 273–298
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Chapter 11. Subjectivity of English connectives: A corpus and experimental investigation of result forward causality signals in written languageMarta Andersson | pp. 299–318
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Index | pp. 319–321
“The studies collected here engage with important and current issues in the field and contribute a range of novel data and perspectives through which to consider both the nature of specific types of discourse constructions and the way in which they can potentially be studied. The volume contributes significant insights and the chapters can serve as valuable models for empirical work for scholars at the graduate level and beyond.”
Juan José Bueno Holle, Independent Researcher, on Linguist List 31.1582 (12 May 2020)
“This volume helps to expand our knowledge on using empirical approaches to tease out the information structure, connection and discourse organization across spoken and written discourses. Moreover, an innovative method of eye tracking in the reading experiments is applied to visualize the discourse structure. [...] It is a valuable academic resource for scholars and students who are interested in discourse analysis.”
Jiang Hui, Liaoning Normal University, in Discourse Studies 23(6) (2021).
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Giacomini, Laura
2022. The contextual behaviour of specialised collocations: typology and lexicographic treatment. Yearbook of Phraseology 13:1 ► pp. 55 ff. 
Klumm, Matthias, Anita Fetzer & Evelien Keizer
2023. Continuative and contrastive discourse relations across discourse domains. Functions of Language 30:1 ► pp. 4 ff.
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009030: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Pragmatics