
Title:
Discourse readjustment(s) in contemporary English
Author:
Pennec, Blandine, author.
ISBN:
9781119482864
Physical Description:
1 online resource
Series:
Cognitive science series
Interaction of syntax and semantics in discourse set ; volume 1
Cognitive science and knowledge management series.
Interaction of syntax and semantics in discourse set ; v. 1.
General Note:
Title from title details screen.
Contents:
Front Matter -- Definitions, Motivations and Typology of Discourse Readjustment Phenomena. Definitions, Motivations and Typology of Discourse Readjustment Phenomena -- Definitions: Mutual Intelligibility, Adjustment, Readjustment and Intersubjectivity -- Motivations Underpinning the Phenomena of Readjustment -- Typology of Readjustments -- Conclusion to Part 1. Conclusion to Part 1 -- Reformulations: Readjustments to Express Oneself More Accurately?. Reformulations: Readjustments to Express Oneself More Accurately? -- The Function of Reformulations in the Framework of Language Activity and Discourse -- The Notion of Reformulation and its Linguistic Manifestations -- Paraphrastic or Non-paraphrastic Reformulations: Prototypical Introducers and Associated Strategies -- Conclusion to Part 2. Conclusion to Part 2 -- Phenomena of Re-examination: Readjustments to Perfect One's Stance?. Phenomena of Re-examination: Readjustments to Perfect One's Stance? -- Recentering: In fact and Competing Markers -- Upgrading and Downgrading: the Cases of Or even and Or at least -- Potential Upgrading: the Sequence If not -- Conclusion to Part 3. Conclusion to Part 3 -- Distancing Processes: Readjustments for Changing Viewpoint?. Distancing Processes: Readjustments for Changing Viewpoint? -- Abandoning a First Enunciative Perspective: Examination of Anyway -- Disconnection and Renewed Stance: the Case of the Marker Now -- The Fixed Phrase After all, or Reconsidering a Viewpoint -- Conclusion to Part 4. Conclusion to Part 4 -- Inserted Segments: Readjustments for Playing with Language?. Inserted Segments: Readjustments for Playing with Language? -- The Use of Metalinguistic Expressions: Readjustments With Rhetorical Aim -- Readjustments in Parenthetical Form -- Dialogical Readjustments: Structures in It is not that ... -- Conclusion to Part 5. Conclusion to Part 5 -- Readjustments Characteristic of Oral Discourse: Phenomena of Co-enunciative (Re)Structuring?. Readjustments Characteristic of Oral Discourse: Phenomena of Co-enunciative (Re)Structuring? -- The Sequence I mean: From "Gap Filler" to Readjustment Marker -- Readjustments Calling on the Co-enunciator: You know and You see -- Expectations of the Co-enunciator: the Use of Mind you -- Conclusion to Part 6. Conclusion to Part 6.
Abstract:
This study examines the linguistic tools which enable speakers and writers to propose adjustments and re-adjustments of the sentences they've just produced, as well as the goals they fulfil by doing so. We examine corrections, reformulations, specifications, modifications of points of views and link them with discursive strategies. (Re)-adjustments can be made in order to express oneself in a better way, to favor comprehension by adapting to the addressee, to structure one's intervention, to play on the potentialities of language (polysemy, homonymy, ambiguity), to mention the main purposes associated with the use of those devices. The study focuses on the markers associated with those strategies. Therefore, it links the syntactic, semantic and pragmatic levels.
Local Note:
John Wiley and Sons
Electronic Access:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119482864Copies:
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