Bruce Fraser

List of John Benjamins publications for which Bruce Fraser plays a role.

Articles

Fraser, Bruce 2010 Chapter 11. Hedging in political discourse: The Bush 2007 press conferencesPerspectives in Politics and Discourse, Okulska, Urszula and Piotr Cap (eds.), pp. 201–214 | Article
Fraser, Bruce 2007 The English Contrastive Discourse Marker insteadFunctional Perspectives on Grammar and Discourse: In honour of Angela Downing, Butler, Christopher S., Raquel Hidalgo Downing and Julia Lavid-López (eds.), pp. 301–312 | Article
This paper examines the English Contrastive Discourse Marker instead as it occurs both in written and spoken discourse. I conclude that there are two primary uses for instead: a “pseudo-action” use, where instead signals a contrast between a non-occurring action and an occurring action; and an… read more
Fraser, Bruce 2005 Whither politenessBroadening the Horizon of Linguistic Politeness, Lakoff, Robin T. and Sachiko Ide (eds.), pp. 65–83 | Article
Fraser, Bruce 2001 The mediator as power brokerNegotiation and Power in Dialogic Interaction, Weigand, Edda and Marcelo Dascal † (eds.), pp. 19–37 | Article
There once was a poor devout man, his old blind mother, and his barren wife. After many years of prayer, God inquired of him what one thing he truly desired. He went home to discuss the matter with his mother and his wife. They could not agree on a single request: his mother wanted her sight back;… read more
Fraser, Bruce 2001 An account of innuendoPerspectives on Semantics, Pragmatics, and Discourse: A Festschrift for Ferenc Kiefer, Kenesei, István and Robert M. Harnish (eds.), pp. 321–336 | Article
Fraser, Bruce 1998 Contrastive Discourse Markers in EnglishDiscourse Markers: Descriptions and theory, Jucker, Andreas H. and Yael Ziv (eds.), pp. 301 ff. | Article
Fraser, Bruce 1996 Pragmatic markersPragmatics 6:2, pp. 167–190 | Article
Fraser, Bruce 1987 9. Pragmatic formativesThe Pragmatic Perspective: Selected papers from the 1985 International Pragmatics Conference, Verschueren, Jef and Marcella Bertuccelli Papi (eds.), pp. 179 ff. | Chapter
Fraser, Bruce and John Robert Ross 1981 Untitled No.14Studies in Language 5:2, pp. 269–271 | Miscellaneous