Table of contents
Introduction
1
Part I.Corpus-based studies
Chapter 1.Challenges in the contrastive study of discourse markers. The case of
then
17
Chapter 2.Local vs. global scope of discourse markers: Corpus-based evidence from syntax and pauses
43
Chapter 3.Prosodic versatility, hierarchical rank and pragmatic function in
conversational markers
61
Chapter 4.A preliminary typology of interactional figures based on a tool for
visualizing conversational structure
93
Chapter 5.Causal relations between discourse and grammar: Because
in spoken French and Dutch
131
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 corpus
151
Part II.Experiment-based studies
Chapter 7.Processing patterns of focusing in Spanish
195
Chapter 8.Expectation changes over time: How long it takes to process focus imposed
by German sogar
229
Chapter 9.Processing implicit and explicit causality in Spanish
253
Part III.Combined approaches
Chapter 10.Subjectivity and causality in discourse and cognition. Evidence from
corpus analyses, acquisition and processing
273
Chapter 11.Subjectivity of English connectives: A corpus and experimental investigation of result forward causality signals in written language
299
Index
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