Discourse functions at the left and right periphery : crosslinguistic investigations of language use and language change /

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Imprint:Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2014]
©2014
Description:1 online resource (viii, 257 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
Language:English
Series:Studies in pragmatics ; volume 12
Studies in pragmatics ; 12.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11235789
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Other authors / contributors:Beeching, Kate, writer of introduction, editor, author.
Detges, Ulrich, writer of introduction, editor, author.
ISBN:9789004274822
9004274820
9789004274808
9004274804
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
English.
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Summary:This volume tests the hypothesis that elements at the left periphery of discourse units have mainly subjective and discourse-structuring functions, whereas at the right periphery, such elements play an intersubjective or modalising role.
Other form:Print version: Discourse functions at the left and right periphery. Leiden, the Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, [2014] 9789004274808
Standard no.:10.1163/9789004274822.