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

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Bibliographic Details
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.
Subject:	Discourse markers. Intercultural communication. Cross-cultural orientation. Linguistic change. Pragmatics. Cross-cultural orientation. Discourse markers. Intercultural communication. Linguistic change. Pragmatics. Electronic books.
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. Print version record.
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.

Table of Contents:

Moi je ne sais pas vs. Je ne sais pas moi : French disjoint pronouns in the left vs. right periphery / Ulrich Detges and Richard Waltereit
Motivations for meaning shift at the left and right periphery : well, bon and hao / Kate Beeching and Yu-Fang Wang
On the function of the epistemic adverbs surely and no doubt at the left and right peripheries of the clause / Elizabeth Closs Traugott
Setting up a mental space : a function of discourse markers at the left periphery (LP) and some observations about LP and RP in Japanese / Noriko O. Onodera
Italian guarda, prego, dai. Pragmatic markers and the left and right periphery / Chiara Ghezzi and Piera Molinelli
'So very fast then' discourse markers at left and right periphery in spoken French / Liesbeth Degand
On the development of sentence final particles (and utterance tags) in Chinese / Foong Ha Yap, Ying Yang and Tak-Sum Wong
The interplay of discourse and prosody at the left and right periphery in Korean : an analysis of kuntey 'but' / Sung-Ock S. Sohn and Stephanie Hyeri Kim.

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