Structures in Discourse: Interaction, adaptability, and pragmatic functions
Edited by Martin Gill, Aino Malmivirta and Brita Wårvik
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 345] 2024. ix, 207 pp.
Brita Wårvik
List of John Benjamins publications for which Brita Wårvik plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
Humane Readings: Essays on literary mediation and communication in honour of Roger D. Sell
Edited by Jason Finch, Martin Gill, Anthony Johnson, Iris Lindahl-Raittila, Inna Lindgren, Tuija Virtanen and Brita Wårvik
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 190] 2009. xi, 160 pp.
Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical literature & literary studies
Opening Windows on Texts and Discourses of the Past
Edited by Janne Skaffari, Matti Peikola, Ruth Carroll, Risto Hiltunen and Brita Wårvik
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 134] 2005. x, 418 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics
2024 Structures in discourse: Micro and macro perspectives Structures in Discourse: Interaction, adaptability, and pragmatic functions, Gill, Martin, Aino Malmivirta and Brita Wårvik (eds.), pp. 1–17 | Chapter
Texts are expected to have structure and the study of that structure is a central concern in text and discourse linguistics. Texts are semantic units and their structure is therefore a matter of organization of the content material included in them. At the same time, text structure is also a… read more
2014 Continuity and quantity: Testing iconicity hypotheses on the continuities of time and participants in Old English narrative prose Journal of Historical Pragmatics 15:1, pp. 93–122 | Article
Givón’s (1995) quantity principle about the diagrammatic iconicity of coding forms has mostly been investigated for topic continuity and nominal elements. The present paper considers its applicability both to participant continuity and the continuity of time, focussing on their interaction in the… read more
2011 Grounding Handbook of Pragmatics: 2011 Installment, Östman, Jan-Ola and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 1–15 | Article
2009 Teaching by stories: Ælfric's instructive narratives Instructional Writing in English: Studies in honour of Risto Hiltunen, Peikola, Matti, Janne Skaffari and Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen (eds.), pp. 13–34 | Article
2003 Introduction Discourse Perspectives on English: Medieval to modern, Hiltunen, Risto and Janne Skaffari (eds.), pp. 1–12 | Miscellaneous
2003 “When you read or hear this story read”: Issues of orality and literacy in Old English texts Discourse Perspectives on English: Medieval to modern, Hiltunen, Risto and Janne Skaffari (eds.), pp. 13–55 | Article
1997 Grounding Handbook of Pragmatics: 1996 Installment, Verschueren, Jef, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Article
1995 The Ambiguous Adverbial/Conjunctions pa and ponne in Middle English: A Discourse-Pragmatic Study of then and when in Early English Saints’ Lives Historical Pragmatics: Pragmatic developments in the history of English, Jucker, Andreas H. (ed.), pp. 345–358 | Article
1990 On the history of grounding markers in English narrative: style or typology? Historical Linguistics 1987: Papers from the 8th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Lille, August 30-September 4, 1987, Andersen, Henning and E.F.K. Koerner † (eds.), pp. 531–542 | Article
1990 On grounding in English narratives: a diachronic perspective Papers from the 5th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Adamson, Sylvia M., Vivien A. Law, Nigel Vincent and Susan Wright (eds.), pp. 559–576 | Article
1987 Old English þa, temporal chains, and narrative structure Papers from the 7th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Giacalone Ramat, Anna, Onofrio Carruba and Giuliano Bernini (eds.), pp. 221–238 | Article