Discourse Markers and Beyond: Descriptive and Critical Perspectives on Discourse-Pragmatic Devices across Genres and Languages

by Péter B. Furkó

Overview

This book explores the use of discourse markers - lexical items where drawing a distinction between propositional and non-propositional, syntactically-semantically integrated and discourse-pragmatic uses is especially relevant. Using a combination of qualitative and quantitative methodologies, descriptive and critical (CDA) perspectives, and manual annotation and automatized analyses, the author argues that Discourse Markers (DMs) cannot be effectively studied in isolation, but must instead be contextualised with reference to other discourse-pragmatic devices and their language and genre backgrounds. This book will be of interest to students and academics working in the fields of DM research and critical discourse studies, and will also appeal to scholars working in areas such as genre studies, second language acquisition (SLA), literary analysis, contemporary cinematography, Tolkien scholarship, and Bible studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030377625
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	12/26/2019
Series:	Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse
Edition description:	1st ed. 2020
Pages:	285
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Péter B. Furkó is Associate Professor in English Applied Linguistics and Vice Dean for Science and Research at the Department of English Linguistics at Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church, Hungary.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Preliminary Issues: Category Membership, Methodology, Alternative Perspectives on Discourse Markers.- Chapter 2: Discourse Markers in Natural Conversations, Scripted Conversations and Political Interviews: Core and Peripheral Uses.- Chapter 3: Discourse Markers from a Critical Perspective: Some Theoretical Issues.- Chapter 4: Discourse Markers from a Critical Perspective: A Case Study of Discourse Markers in Parliamentary Speeches.- Chapter 5: The Use of Discourse Markers in Business English Textbooks: Issues in L2 Communicative Competence and Learners' Input.- Chapter 6: Discourse Markers in Scripted Discourse I- Issues of (Under)specification in the Translation of Reformulation Markers.- Chapter 7: Discourse Markers in Scripted Discourse II: The Representation and Translation of Irish English Stereotypes in Contemporary Cinematography.- Chapter 8: Discourse Markers and their Translation in Literary Discourse: A Case Study of Discourse-Pragmatic Devices in The Hobbit.- Chapter 9: The Use of Discourse Markers in Bible Translations.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“This highly innovative book is an indispensable source for researchers engaged in the investigation of discourse markers in various languages and genres. Applying a new complex discourse and pragmatic perspective and methodology, which integrate automatized annotation methods of large datasets as well as fine-grained human qualitative analyses of individual examples, the present work is a highly recommended reading for experts, researchers, students of these fields and for anyone simply interested in the study of human communication.” (Enikő Németh T., University of Szeged, Hungary)

“This volume contains rigorous empirical study which focuses on technical aspects of discourse annotation, whilst also crossing over with critical approaches in Discourse Studies. The book is likely to become a standard reference in research on discourse markers and especially their relevance to Critical Discourse Analysis. Thorough in its analytical grasp and broad in its thematic scope, this book is a must-read for researchers of Discourse Studies, as well as discourse analysis, pragmatics and discourse marker research.” (Ildikó Vaskó, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary)

Editorial Reviews

This book makes a valuable contribution for several reasons. It is written in a lucid and reader-friendly manner with well-structured chapters … it would be eminently enlightening for students and scholars interested in studying DMs.” (Reza Kazemian, Journal of Pragmatics, Vol. 164, 2020)

From the Publisher