Pragmatic Markers and Peripheries

Editors

Daniël Van Olmen

Jolanta Šinkūnienė

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The relation between pragmatic markers and the peripheries of clauses, utterances and/or turns has been a topic of linguistic interest for the last few decades. Many issues continue to be debated, however, such as “how should the notion of periphery be defined?”, “to what extent do pragmatic markers in the left versus the right periphery fulfill different functions?” and “which factors determine the order of multiple pragmatic markers in a periphery?”. This volume brings together a number of studies addressing these and other questions. It presents new data from a diverse range of languages – including less researched ones in this context like Ainu, Latvian and Lithuanian – and on a variety of types of pragmatic marker – including emoji. The volume as a whole offers new insights into, among other things, the subjectivity intersubjectivity peripheries hypothesis, the idea of left-to-right movement and the matrix clauses hypothesis.

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 325] 2021. vi, 452 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 28 September 2021

https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.325

Table of Contents

Introduction. Pragmatic markers and peripheries: An overview

Daniël Van Olmen and Jolanta Šinkūnienė | pp. 1–16

Part I. Defining the periphery

Chapter 1. Discourse markers at the peripheries of syntax, intonation and turns: Towards a cognitive-functional unit of segmentation

Liesbeth Degand and Ludivine Crible | pp. 19–48

Chapter 2. Dutch pragmatic markers in the left periphery

Ton van der Wouden and Ad Foolen | pp. 49–74

Part II. Left and right periphery on their own

Chapter 3. Presentation followed by negotiation: Final pragmatic particle sequencing in Ainu

Katsunobu Izutsu and Mitsuko Narita Izutsu | pp. 77–110

Chapter 4. Another ‘look!’: The Latvian particle lūk in parliamentary discourse

Nicole Nau | pp. 111–140

Part III. Left versus right periphery

Chapter 5. Verb-based discourse markers in Italian: Guarda, vedi, guarda te, vedi te

Linda Badan | pp. 143–170

Chapter 6. Interactions between distribution and functional uses in Italian adversative pragmatic markers: A corpus-based and multilevel approach

Doriana Cimmino | pp. 171–198

Chapter 7. The Lithuanian focus particles net ‘even’ and tik ‘only’ and clause peripheries

Erika Jasionytė-Mikučionienė | pp. 199–228

Chapter 8. Žinai ‘you know’ in Lithuanian discourse: Distributional features and functional profile

Jolanta Šinkūnienė | pp. 229–250

Chapter 9. Second person parentheticals of unintentional visual perception in British English

Daniël Van Olmen | pp. 251–276

Chapter 10. Emoji as graphic discourse markers: Functional and positional associations in German WhatsApp® messages

Heike Wiese and Annika Labrenz | pp. 277–300

Part IV. Peripheries across time

Chapter 11. Functional asymmetry and left-to-right movement: Speaking of peripheries

Yinchun Bai | pp. 303–326

Chapter 12. The diachronic origin of English I mean and German ich meine

Daniela Kolbe-Hanna and Natalia Filatkina | pp. 327–350

Chapter 13. Pragmatic markers at the periphery and discourse prominence: The case of English of course

Diana M. Lewis | pp. 351–382

Part V. Peripheries across languages

Chapter 14. The Norwegian tag da in comparison to English then

Kaja Borthen and Elena Karagjosova | pp. 385–414

Chapter 15. A cross-linguistic look at the right periphery: Utterance-final pragmatic markers in English, Spanish and Lithuanian

Anna Ruskan and Marta Carretero | pp. 415–448

Index

“This volume will be of interest to all who want to learn more about PMs and their behaviors at various locations in discourse. The chapters in this book generally conform to a high standard of scholarship. [...] The volume is a model for how to use corpus data to investigate PMs.”

Mary Jill Brody, Louisiana State University, on Linguist List 34.668 (23 February 2023)

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