David M. Bell

List of John Benjamins publications for which David M. Bell plays a role.

Articles

Bell, David M. 2007 Sentence-initial And and But in academic writingPragmatics 17:2, pp. 183–201 | Article
Prescriptivists have long proscribed sentence-initial And (SIA), and sentence-initial But (SIB). However, SIA and SIB are increasingly used in newspapers and style guides have softened strictures against their use. Moreover, SIA and SIB are amongst the most frequently occurring sentence-initial… read more
Bell, David M. 1998 Cancellative discourse markers: A core/periphery approachPragmatics 8:4, pp. 515–541 | Article