Pragmatic Markers and Peripheries
Edited by Daniël Van Olmen and Jolanta Šinkūnienė
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 325] 2021. vi, 452 pp.
Jolanta Šinkūnienė
List of John Benjamins publications for which Jolanta Šinkūnienė plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Intercultural Perspectives on Research Writing
Edited by Pilar Mur-Dueñas and Jolanta Šinkūnienė
[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 18] 2018. x, 310 pp.
Subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching | Writing and literacy
Articles
2021 Introduction. Pragmatic markers and peripheries: An overview Pragmatic Markers and Peripheries, Van Olmen, Daniël and Jolanta Šinkūnienė (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Chapter
2021 Chapter 8. Žinai ‘you know’ in Lithuanian discourse: Distributional features and functional profile Pragmatic Markers and Peripheries, Van Olmen, Daniël and Jolanta Šinkūnienė (eds.), pp. 229–250 | Chapter
This corpus-based study focuses on the frequency, distribution patterns and functional profile of the pragmatic marker žinai ‘you know’ in Lithuanian spoken discourse and fiction. The data for the study comes from interviews, spontaneous private conversations and a parallel corpus of English and… read more
2018 Introduction: Intercultural rhetoric approaches to the analysis of academic genres Intercultural Perspectives on Research Writing, Mur-Dueñas, Pilar and Jolanta Šinkūnienė (eds.), pp. 1–12 | Chapter
2018 Chapter 3. The power of English: I and we in Lithuanian, Lithuanian English and British English research writing Intercultural Perspectives on Research Writing, Mur-Dueñas, Pilar and Jolanta Šinkūnienė (eds.), pp. 59–79 | Chapter
The use of I and we in research writing has been acknowledged as one of the most powerful means to mark author stance, however there are substantial differences in personal pronoun preferences depending on the disciplinary and cultural background of the writer. This chapter investigates the use… read more
2017 Potential vs Use: Revisiting an evidential participial construction in Lithuanian Evidentiality Revisited: Cognitive grammar, functional and discourse-pragmatic perspectives, Marín-Arrese, Juana I., Gerda Haßler and Marta Carretero (eds.), pp. 171–192 | Article
The paper deals with the existing potential of the grammatical realizations of evidentiality (so-called “passive evidentials”) in Lithuanian, which has been described theoretically in literature; however there are no studies that would attest to the frequency and patterns of actual use of this… read more
2017 Chapter 10. Citations in research writing: The interplay of discipline, culture and expertise Cross-linguistic Correspondences: From lexis to genre, Egan, Thomas and Hildegunn Dirdal (eds.), pp. 253–270 | Chapter
The paper investigates disciplinary, cultural and genre factors and their influence on citation in research writing. The study is based on literature and linguistics research articles written by Lithuanian and British researchers in their native languages as well as literature and linguistics BA… read more