Demonstratives in discourse
This volume explores the use of demonstratives in the structuring and management of discourse, and their role as engagement expressions, from a crosslinguistic perspective. It seeks to establish which types of discourse-related functions are commonly encoded by demonstratives, beyond the well-establ...
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| description | This volume explores the use of demonstratives in the structuring and management of discourse, and their role as engagement expressions, from a crosslinguistic perspective. It seeks to establish which types of discourse-related functions are commonly encoded by demonstratives, beyond the well-established reference-tracking and deictic uses, and also investigates which members of demonstrative paradigms typically take on certain functions. Moreover, it looks at the roles of non-deictic demonstratives, that is, members of the paradigm which are dedicated e.g. to contrastive, recognitional, or anaphoric functions and do not express deictic distinctions. Several of the studies also focus on manner demonstratives, which have been little studied from a crosslinguistic perspective. The volume thus broadens the scope of investigation of demonstratives to look at how their core functions interact with a wider range of discourse functions in a number of different languages. The volume covers languages from a range of geographical locations and language families, including Cushitic and Mande languages in Africa, Oceanic and Papuan languages in the Pacific region, Algonquian and Guaykuruan in the Americas, and Germanic, Slavic and Finno-Ugric languages in the Eurasian region. It also includes two papers taking a broader typological approach to specific discourse functions of demonstratives. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-638322025-07-31T11:17:14Z Demonstratives in discourse Treis, Yvonne Margetts, Anna Næss, Åshild Language Arts & Disciplines Linguistics Biography & Autobiography thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose::DNB Biography: general This volume explores the use of demonstratives in the structuring and management of discourse, and their role as engagement expressions, from a crosslinguistic perspective. It seeks to establish which types of discourse-related functions are commonly encoded by demonstratives, beyond the well-established reference-tracking and deictic uses, and also investigates which members of demonstrative paradigms typically take on certain functions. Moreover, it looks at the roles of non-deictic demonstratives, that is, members of the paradigm which are dedicated e.g. to contrastive, recognitional, or anaphoric functions and do not express deictic distinctions. Several of the studies also focus on manner demonstratives, which have been little studied from a crosslinguistic perspective. The volume thus broadens the scope of investigation of demonstratives to look at how their core functions interact with a wider range of discourse functions in a number of different languages. The volume covers languages from a range of geographical locations and language families, including Cushitic and Mande languages in Africa, Oceanic and Papuan languages in the Pacific region, Algonquian and Guaykuruan in the Americas, and Germanic, Slavic and Finno-Ugric languages in the Eurasian region. It also includes two papers taking a broader typological approach to specific discourse functions of demonstratives. 2021-02-25T03:02:15Z 2021-02-25T03:02:15Z 2021-02-24T04:31:30Z 2020 book OCN: 1249169505 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/46937 9783961102860 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/63832 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/46937/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/46937/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/46937/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/46937/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/46937/1/external_content.pdf Language Science Press Language Science Press https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4054814 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4054814 ed03121b-b998-4b50-8d58-1d0745565558 9783961102860 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Language Science Press 2018-2020 Language Science Press open access |
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