Discourse markers in early modern English /
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| Author / Creator: | Lutzky, Ursula. |
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| Imprint: | Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012. |
| Description: | 1 online resource |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Pragmatics & beyond new series ; 227 |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11168409 |
| Summary: | This volume provides new insights into the nature of the Early Modern English discourse markers marry , well and why through the analysis of three corpora ( A Corpus of English Dialogues, 1560-1760, the Parsed Corpus of Early English Correspondence, and the Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Early Modern English ). By combining both quantitative and qualitative approaches in the study of pragmatic markers, innovative findings are reached about their distribution throughout the period 1500-1760, their attestation in different speech-related text types as well as similarities and differences in their functions. Additionally, this work engages in a sociopragmatic study, based on the sociopragmatically annotated Drama Corpus of almost a quarter of a million words, to enhance our understanding about their use by characters of different social status and gender. This volume therefore constitutes an essential piece of the puzzle in our attempt to gain a full picture of discourse marker use.This book won the 2014 ESSE book award in English Language and Linguistics |
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| Item Description: | Originally presented as author's doctoral thesis at University of Vienna, 2009 under the title "Discourse markers in Early Modern English." |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027256324 9027256322 9781283895286 1283895285 9027273286 9789027273284 |