Bruce Fraser
List of John Benjamins publications for which Bruce Fraser plays a role.
Chapter 11. Hedging in political discourse: The Bush 2007 press conferences Perspectives in Politics and Discourse, Okulska, Urszula and Piotr Cap (eds.), pp. 201–214 | Article
2010 The English Contrastive Discourse Marker instead Functional 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
2007 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
Whither politeness Broadening the Horizon of Linguistic Politeness, Lakoff, Robin T. and Sachiko Ide (eds.), pp. 65–83 | Article
2005 The mediator as power broker Negotiation and Power in Dialogic Interaction, Weigand, Edda and Marcelo Dascal † (eds.), pp. 19–37 | Article
2001 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
An account of innuendo Perspectives on Semantics, Pragmatics, and Discourse: A Festschrift for Ferenc Kiefer, Kenesei, István and Robert M. Harnish (eds.), pp. 321–336 | Article
2001 Contrastive Discourse Markers in English Discourse Markers: Descriptions and theory, Jucker, Andreas H. and Yael Ziv (eds.), pp. 301–326 | Article
1998 Pragmatic markers Pragmatics 6:2, pp. 167–190 | Article
1996 9. Pragmatic formatives The Pragmatic Perspective: Selected papers from the 1985 International Pragmatics Conference, Verschueren, Jef and Marcella Bertuccelli Papi (eds.), pp. 179–194 | Chapter
1987 Untitled No.14 Studies in Language 5:2, pp. 269–271 | Miscellaneous
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