Anje Müller Gjesdal
List of John Benjamins publications for which Anje Müller Gjesdal plays a role.
Articles
2015 Chapter 13. The infinite present: The pronoun on and the present tense in L’excès – l’usine by Leslie Kaplan The Pragmatics of Personal Pronouns, Gardelle, Laure and Sandrine Sorlin (eds.), pp. 259–274 | Article
This chapter analyses the interaction of the French indefinite personal pronoun on and the present tense in L’excès – l’usine by Leslie Kaplan, a collection of poetry about the experience of factory work. ‘On’ has a complex semantic content, and its interpretative values range from the personal… read more
2013 On what is not said and who said it: Argumentative connectives in Nicolas Sarkozy’s speeches to the European Parliament Speaking of Europe: Approaches to complexity in European political discourse, Fløttum, Kjersti (ed.), pp. 85–110 | Article
This chapter will propose a model for the analysis of argumentative connectives (thus, therefore, but etc.) in political discourse. While argumentative connectives have traditionally been analysed as text cohesion devices (Halliday) or pragmatic markers (Schiffrin, Blakemore) in an Anglo context,… read more