Discourse Markers in Interaction: From Production to Comprehension

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2022

Discourse Markers in Interaction

From Production to Comprehension

Edited by: Maria-Josep Cuenca and Liesbeth Degand

Volume 376 in the series Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110790351

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About this book

The aim of this volume is to bring together researchers interested in investigating the role that Discourse Markers play in language production and comprehension from an experimental or corpus-based perspective.

In any kind of human communication, Discourse Markers are part of the game. This omnipresence informs us of a crucial inherent aspect of human language. Yet, as a linguistic category, Discourse Markers remain underdetermined. To gain deeper insight into this complex linguistic category, more systematic work is needed on the production and on the interpretation of Discourse Markers in a variety of situational settings, resorting to different methodological approaches. The contributions in this volume aim at drawing more attention to the double face of Discourse Markers, namely as signals intentionally used by the speaker to facilitate the addressee’s interpretation of the discourse, but also as potential traces of the speaker’s production difficulties.

The combination of experimental and corpus-based approaches and the focus on processing of Discourse Markers in both production and comprehension makes this volume a unique contribution in answering the question why we use Discourse Markers in certain situations, but also when we do not.

Author / Editor information

Maria-Josep Cuenca, Universitat de València, Spain; Liesbeth Degand, University of Louvain, Belgium.

Reviews

"To sum up, this enlightening and informative book, which makes methodological contributions and involves interdisciplinary studies, will promote more breakthroughs for future DM [Discourse Markers] researches." Yanhong Guo, Dandi Li in: Journal of Pragmatics 2023

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
1 Discourse markers in interaction: Introduction Maria-Josep Cuenca and Liesbeth Degand Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2 Principles of Discourse Marking: An experimental approach of general and contrastive perspectives Óscar Loureda, Inés Recio Fernández, Adriana Cruz and Martha Rudka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
3 New perspectives on car and parce que: Is it about subjectivity, reasoning or speakers? Joanna Blochowiak and Cristina Grisot Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
4 Individual differences in the ability to master connectives: The importance of exposure to print Sandrine Zufferey, Ekaterina Tskhovrebova, Mathis Wetzel and Pascal Gygax Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
5 Do non-native readers rely on connectives? The processing of coherence relations in L2 Mathis Wetzel, Sandrine Zufferey and Pascal Gygax Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
6 How egocentric is discourse marker use? Investigating the impact of speaker orientation and cognitive load on discourse marker production Zoé Broisson and Liesbeth Degand Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
7 When do discourse markers affect computational sentence understanding? Ruiqi Li, Liesbeth Allein, Damien Sileo and Marie-Francine Moens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
8 Discourse markers and dialogue act annotation for computational dialogue systems Darinka Verdonik Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
9 Translating discourse markers: Implicitation and explicitation strategies Maria-Josep Cuenca Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
10 Processing polyfunctional discourse markers: Making sense of Hebrew harey Mira Ariel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Scholars and Researchers interested in Applied Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Teaching, Computation, Translation Studies
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 280
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 16
- Coloured Illustrations: 9
- Tables: 24
Keywords: Discourse Markers; Discourse Processing; Corpus Analysis; Computational Applications

eBook

Published: September 6, 2022
ISBN: 9783110790351

Hardcover

Published: September 6, 2022
ISBN: 9783110790177