Discourse adjustments and re-adjustments in contemporary English. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Blandine Pennec.
• Authors: Pennec, Blandine
• Contents: Part 1. Core and margins of (re)-adjustment phenomena 1. Definitions. Inter-comprehension, adjustments, re-adjustments and inter-subjectivity. 2. Reasons leading to discourse re-adjustments. 3. Typology of discourse re-adjustments. Part 2. Reformulations: re-adjustments leading to a better form of expression? 1. The role of reformulations within language and discourse. 2. The notion of reformulation and the corresponding linguistic tools. 3. The discursive strategies linked with the use of reformulations. Part 3. Gradations, downgrading and refocusing processes: re-adjustments leading to reposition oneself? 1. Re-focusing processes. Constructions using in fact and remarks about competing markers. 2. Gradations and downgrading processes: the study of the fixed phrases and even and or at least. 3. Gradations suggested: the case of the sequence if not. Part 4. Distance taking and revisions: re-adjustments permitting to change one’s point of view? 1. Distance taking: the study of anyway and remarks about competing fixed phrases. 2. The use of now: from its use as a deictic to its use as a marker of re-adjustment. 3. The fixed phrase after all: the reconsideration of a point of view. Part 5. Metalinguistic expressions, parenthetical and dialogical segments: re-adjustments enabling speakers to play with language? 1. The use of metalinguistic expressions: re-adjustments with rhetorical purposes. 2. Parenthetical segments: plays on different levels of expression. 3. Study of constructions using it is not that….it is that…: a strong dialogical dimension. Part 6. Discourse markers: re-adjustments used to better structure oral speech? 1. The expression I mean: a “gap filler” but also a marker of re-adjustment. 2. The case of you know and you see: markers creating a participation framework. 3. The use of mind you: how to counter the hearer’s expectations.
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Wiley-ISTE
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 420.141; English language -- Discourse analysis; English language -- Syntax
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781119522508; 9781119522645
• Related ISBNs: 9781786302823
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